Kamille D. Whittaker
[Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean
Small Axe editorial committee member Tami Navarro and archipelagos editor Kaiama L. Glover co-host Writing Home, a weekly podcast about...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20201 min read
Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
#JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 12, 20202 min read
Try This: Orange Peel + Moringa Seed, Grapeseed, Vitamin E Oil Face Serum
I have two near-future Licensed Estheticians in the house and we like to experiment.
Kamille D. Whittaker
Mar 29, 20202 min read
Chopin's 'Nocturnes'
Between 1827 and 1846, piano composer Frederic Chopin wrote 21 Nocturnes -- moody compositions that feature a prominent melody goading a...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jan 26, 20201 min read
Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 17, 20191 min read
The Ways We Mother
#JumpAtTheSuns #Mothering
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 24, 20191 min read
Of Rivers and Volcanoes
There’s little to nothing on the drive from Liberia to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific lays claim. Nothing, as in no...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 21, 20191 min read
Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"
[Lucille begins at the :26 mark] won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jan 30, 20193 min read
Natural Wonder: Three Days of Wellness in Aruba
Aruba is rugged and vibrant – decadent in some places and quiet when it needs to be. There’s the healing sun, sand and sea and there’s...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 27, 20182 min read
Excerpt: The Sanctum of a Bloom
By Rosalind Bentley for Southern Foodways Alliance A couple of years ago, my mother and I were making our way through the Whole Foods...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 26, 20181 min read
Cassava From My Mother's Garden: "Our ancestors had to tap into the rhythm of the plants …"
I am always intrigued by mom's growing of Cassava, knowing what I know about the rules surrounding its harvest and consumption. Every...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jul 11, 20181 min read
Day One: Beautiful Barbados
Regrettably, I didn't take many (any?) pictures of the Barbados countryside and towns when I visited seven years ago. So, I have had to...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jul 3, 20182 min read
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...
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, 20184 min read
Chef Ahki: Always Be Cleansing
People tend to find Sepsenahki “Chef Ahki” Aahkhu, top of the Delicious Indigenous Foods chain, at many junctures. Whether they are...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20185 min read
Sweet, West End: Just Add Honey Expands
Just Add Honey is expanding beyond its Sweet Auburn Curb Market location, recently partnering with The Hammonds House to provide a cafe...
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...
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