You're right, it is a title from Dr. Suess. Yertle was king of all he could see but that was not enough, for he could only see the pond in which he lived. So he ordered nine turtles to stack themselves up so he could climb higher and see more. But...
Topics: Books, Dr. Suess

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Sphere, the 1987 thriller, by ER writer Michael Crichton, certainly lived up to Newsweek's rave that it's a page turner. Yep, I turned page after page and gobbled the book off in a Jiffy. But when I was done I had indigestion. The nail biting...
Topics: Books, Michael Crichton, Sphere, The Little Gentleman

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Kin teet is Jamaican for laughter. Kibba means cover. Bun stands for burn. When translated you get someting like 'use laughter to cover pain'. This is by no means saying be a stoic. Not at all. We Jamaicans are open and unabashed where grief and..
Topics: Folk Wisdom Fridays, Jamaicanisms

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"Like the great masters of the past, V.S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful. Simple, strong words, with which to express the humanity of all of us."...
Topics: Books, Caribbean Writers

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A duppy is a ghost. Sometimes we use the word to mean a stupid person, or an ugly person, but mostly we mean ghost. Duppies feature prominently in our folklore, the most famous of them being Annie Palmer the white witch of Rose Hall . Then there is a...
Topics: Caribbean Folkways, Folk Wisdom Fridays, Folky Fridays, Jamaican Culture, Jamaicanisms

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