Raising Children to Weather the Storm
There was a time when I wanted to be a nurse like my mom. That’s because I would accompany her to work every once in a while back in Jamaica. She’d pack my favorite snack, Ovaltine Crackers and Milo. I’d sit at the nurses station and meet some of her colleagues and see some of the newborn…
I remember being assigned a science project in elementary school. When the teacher asked what I had chosen, I told her I wanted to do mine on a volcano. I knew nothing about how to make a volcano or how to make it erupt. I wanted to construct a huge lava spewing mountain. Instead, I ended up…
