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What kind and how much coconut oil can you take to treat and prevent Alzheimer's and many other health conditions and treat hundreds of symptoms? The dosage used in most Alzheimer's studies is about 5 TBSP per day of extra virgin coconut oil. However, Dr. Fife told me that 1-3 TBSP is his recommendation for minor ailments and for maintenance... click on "Coconut oil" in the News section.

She had a voice that danced like sunshine through warm Sunday mornings, wafting so sweet in her Jamaican church that Sophia George’s friend said it must be heard throughout the land. And because Sophia’s friend knew someone looking for a singer, she insisted Sophia go to the audition. So on the prescribed day, Sophia arrived at the studio and met a Chinese man with a Jamaican accent... click on "Patrick Chung" in the News section.

Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds grow over the old markers, and time humbles even a rich man’s grave. The most forsaken burial places lie at the end of a dirt path that follows a fetid gully across two bridges and through an open meadow, far enough south to hear the white noise coming off the harbor and the highway ... click on "Tivoli Massacre" in the News section.

Chung Fah has since restored function in one ear, but the ailment was another in a long line of medical setbacks in recent years. A few weeks ago he returned home after months in hospital, fighting "gout, ulcers and arthritis," which, he claimed, "took over my body." Compound that with kidney infections, diabetes, heart and knee problems... click on "Winston Chung Fah" in the News section.

We went hiking to see a waterfall high in the mountains which was appropriately called Cascada Escondido. On the trail we did not have any luck spotting any birds as it was now mid-day. When we got to the waterfall, there along the stream, watercress was growing. I picked some and they were already clean from the running water ... click on "Panama Jack" in the Articles section.

Tsung Tsin Association of Ontario celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 10, 2011. For the festival of the biggest and brightest moon of the year, the hall was decorated with many beautiful lanterns. A menu of delicious, traditional Hakka dishes and the essential moon cake and pomelos was served... click on "Mid-Autumn Festival" in the Articles section.

AS QUIET and unassuming as the Gibraltar Camp Road section of the UWI campus is today, 60 years ago it was anything but. The site of an evacuation camp for some 1,500 Gibraltarians (hence its name), an army base, and later an internment camp, the land was covered by row after row of wooden huts with a few commodes here and there... click on "Gibraltar Camp" in the Articles section.

Following my request for nostalgic photos are these circa ‘50’s generously provided by Ms. Simone Tai of her family at Hope Gardens with pond, swans and Long Mountains behind; along with a one of her dad at the beach. There is also a current shot for you back-home yardies, of a grey squirrel in my backyard fattening up for the winter. I am sure we all have albums chock-full of photos from JA in the good old days that we have lying around and taken for granted-well those photos are a treasure trove for me and anyone of similar nostalgic vein. Well I am begging you for these. I know there may be some that are too painful, intimate or personal but anything else please share with us... click on "Picture Appeal" in the Articles section.

I believe......that how we tend to look at things in our daily life, makes all the difference in the world. One could look at a rose and see thorns. While another would see that the thorns come with rose. One could look at a caterpillar and see a worm, while another could see the beautiful butterfly it will become... click on "I Believe" in the Articles section.

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Make Curried Callaloo... go to the Recipes page.

January 2012