Making a picture book while caregiving- Resilience

Making a picture book while caregiving- Resilience

Each day, I sit down to write, develop some part of the project, an evolving entity on the x-axis of time. Parallel to this runs my role as caregiver to my mother, her need for care a variable that defies prediction.The project of book making with the project of care....
Systematize Support

Systematize Support

As Caribbean brown women of   working-class inheritance, we face the disproportionate duality of caregiving responsibilities for our elders and disabled family members while pursuing professional and personal ambitions.  It is challenging. Sometimes...
Empathy

Empathy

Understand the role of parents/caregivers as book selectors As a children’s book author, Can I say the “A” word – Author – out loud! It’s both scary and exciting to learn the process of bookmaking while crafting this picture book,...
Awareness

Awareness

After leaving art school some 10 years ago with a mountain of student loan debt from my working-class background, the system didn’t seem geared towards allowing me to pursue a creative career. I didn’t know how to have a creative career. So, I focused on paying...
Just a lil bit

Just a lil bit

I wil do a lil bit every day & I will improve a lil bit everyday. The improvement is the game changer – it’s like going from 0% to 37% more in a year. That’s a lot of real change. But for now I am working on me and mommy wellness. I realise we both need...