If you are one of those Independent or undecided voters, here is a helpful list of reasons you may have overlooked, which should help tilt your vote toward the prez. 1. He’s Black! Any right-thinking person knows that black people are cooler than white people, and that it’s hip if your party is sprinkled with a few black guests. Go ahead, ask someone–anyone–if they hang with blacks, and they will say, “Some of my best friends are black!” People in Read More…

My husband and I were hanging out with friends the other day when, somehow, the question arose as to the correct translation, from French into English, of the word con. My husband is French and I grew up speaking French in Haiti; but I came to the States as a young child, so conversations like this one are not unusual in our house. “How do you say, ‘an affair’ in French?” I said. “As in, ‘to have an affair.’” “Une Read More…

I’m very excited to report that my new novel, Saturday Comes, A Novel of Love and Vodou, is now available as an eBook! Check it out! Also have a new Facebook page for Saturday Comes. Please visit the page and “like” it! Saturday Comes: A Novel of Love and Vodou

Originally published on Fiftyisthenew.com Hello, here are some words I would like to obliterate from our vocabulary, dictionaries, lexicons and consciousness. Bureaucracy (byuu-rok-ra-see) – excessive official routine How does bureaucracy sound? No, ma’am, I can’t schedule that appointment for you until your doctor faxes us an authorization; No, ma’am, we can’t set up online management of your corporate account until we order an ATM bank card for you (even if you don’t want or need one); Yes, ma’am, if you Read More…

Originally published on Huffington Post. Last week, my husband and I got the sad news that our friend, artist Burton Chenet, was shot to death in his home by an intruder. His wife, Christine, sustained a serious injury when the gunman shattered her elbow with another shot before fleeing. The tragic incident took place in Turgeau, a residential area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Although ours was not a very close relationship, I liked Burton a lot, kept in touch with him Read More…