Tag: Little

???The Little Mermaid??? Remake is Right on Race???but Still Not Quite Right for Me

 I’ve taken some very deep breaths after seeing the asinine outcry from people who cannot handle the idea of a Black little mermaid. Black Twitter has served up trenchant, pithy, and hilarious responses to the nonsense, and I have just two things to add: (1) This is nothing new ...

Grit and a little luck

Success in the mountains requires many things — physical fitness, climbing skill appropriate to the objective (e.g. rock, ice, snow, and maybe all of the above) proficiency in technical systems to maintain an acceptable level of risk, navigation…the list goes on. A healthy dose of luck ...

Ice Cream With a Little Politics on Top

The brand’s premium ice cream contains so much butter fat that it isn’t considered ice cream by definition. The factory where it’s made is where a large portion of the egg yolks separated from Egg Beaters end up. And created in that building is the best damn tasting ice cream in...

Here???s Why the Little Mermaid Is Now Black and not White

Did you know that the Little Mermaid teaser earned over 104 million global views when it premiered at the Disney D23 Expo? That is more than any other recent Disney live-action movie. Despite this achievement, the trailer has received over 3 million dislikes on YouTube. ...

So Much To Do, So Little Time!

As I wander through my days now that I’ve been retired for a couple of years, I often ask myself when I ever found time to work 40+ hours every week. Yet, somehow I did. And I did that for decades and decades. But how? When I look back, I realize that I made all those decades of working ...

I am Preparing for a Little Adventure part 2!

I decided to write a little to tell about my ghost hunting adventure that I mentioned in my article I’m Going on a Little Adventure! We started our drive in a local cemetery in the daylight. We weren’t there for even 5 minutes and we saw SO many beautiful creatures! The deer were so c...

Little Jamaica: A Cultural Mosaic of Music, Magic and Melanin

If there is anywhere this Jamaican saying ‘wi likkle but wi tallawah’ rings true, it is with Little Jamaica, the cultural gridiron of Jamaica in Toronto, Canada’s largest metropolitan centre. For over six decades, Jamaican and West Indian culture beyond the shores of &lsq...

What???s ???Little Edo??? in Tokyo? Why it???s so famous? How to visit it?

Little Edo, also known as Kawagoe, is a special town located in Saitama, not far from Tokyo. This place is a hit because it has a lot of buildings that look like from the Edo period in Japan. It’s like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to an older Japan. One famous street...

Have yourself a Bookish Little Christmas

And as part of one of my creative yomps around London, (have notebook, will travel), I visited one of the most interesting at the weekend, the St Pancras Internation Christmas Tree made out of a spiral of handpainted books with cosy seating underneath. While I was there, it was attracting a consi...