by BC Pires
In most team sports, the field positions sound like what they are. In soccer, you have defending, mid-field and attacking players called backs, links and forwards. American football has tackles, running backs and wide receivers.
Baseball has four bases (three of them called “one”,...
by BC Pires
Dasheen ain’t caviar. A starchy tuber or root crop from a food group so basic it is called “ground provision” in the West Indies, dasheen forms the backbone of a labourer’s meal, not the icing on a gourmet’s gateau. Like its cousins eddoes, tannia and yam, dasheen is...
by BC Pires
All human experience is circular, with the extremes far closer to one another than the midpoints: you laugh until you cry; at the darkest moment of despair, hope glimmers; even the American singer John Mellencamp, probably the least likely Mensa candidate in show business, could discern and declare...