Kamille D. Whittaker
New Orleans' Nostalgic NOPSI
It’s perfectly fine to have great expectations of New Orleans. Its various institutions are well-versed in the onus that is placed on the...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20182 min read
Notes on "Going Home"
I grew up between parched Southern Cali suburbs and maternal and paternal immediate and extended family in Jamaica. I was exposed to...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20183 min read
"Up Country": Bois Content, Jamaica
"Oh, let's go back to the start." We are, and have always been, on African time. The practice of mourning infused with the celebration of...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 7, 20185 min read
Sky City: Santa Fe
They call Santa Fe the “Sky City” because – besides being at 7,000-foot altitude — you are constantly compelled to look up. You see a...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20183 min read
Set Apart In St. Barth
There are some travels that change you. Some change the way you measure time, space, even distance. Others recalibrate your senses,...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20185 min read
I {HEART} TALLY
It was like something out of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The part where Janie and Tea Cake go out to work...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20183 min read
GoldenEye: "The Peace And The Drama"
My mother’s family hails from Bois Content, Jamaica in the hills north of Old Harbour Bay, on the South Coast of the island. My father...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20183 min read
Pura Vida in Costa Rica’s Papagayo Peninsula
There’s little to nothing on the 30-minute drive from the airport to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific Ocean lays...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 5, 20186 min read
New Favorites in Napa Valley
Great wine grapes, it is said, need sun to aid in the production of sugars (via photosynthesis), color development and heat accumulation...
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