Martha picks raspberries and talks about possibilities. Video by Crystal Clear Waters.
I never did get quite enough raspberries this spring to make raspberry jam. Maybe I will get a fall crop that will yield more berries. My older blueberry bushes also didn’t have a high yield, although I am still picking some. We had a very hot and dry few weeks and many of the blueberries and blackberries just shriveled… But I did pick enough altogether to make a raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, rhubarb pie that was mostly rhubarb… and tasted good, to me anyway.
Martha Cinader speaks with Opal Palmer Adisa in Jamaica, author of Pretty Like Jamaica, published by Caribbean Reads.
Martha also speaks with author Chavisa Woods, Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes in New York City.
Tony Robles reads poetry from Issue 16 of A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine.
fresh with still-wet hair
spit on my pubescent idea
of fair, a wad on my head
to add to my dread
that he might lash out
about a girl as wrong
as a protest song
We talked about how the role of provider has changed in Jamaica, gender violence, Jamaican National language and English in the schools, choosing to live in Jamaica, and her plans for at least ten more children's books...
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