Kadinechristie - Kadine Christie - Author, Writer, Speaker, Creator

I Am…

Marriage, Mindful Living,November 20, 2020159Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, after a long day, I sat on the couch with Markolee -- my ten-year-old son. Usually, around this time I would have been cooking, trying to get dinner on the table by the time hubby came home from work, and before the kids would be leaving for youth night. Yesterday, however, I had enough…

Magic and Medicine

Marriage, Mindful Living,October 23, 2020188Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I lived in Jamaica, building a fire was necessary work -- searching for brem-brem in Papa's field, bundling the dried sticks, and bringing them to Mama. I watched her build the fire on which she would cook curry goat and stew chicken for dinner. I knew from an early age, that fire was Magic. …

Dancing With the Sun

Marriage, Mindful Living,October 17, 2020178Views 0Likes 0Comments

Dancing with the Sun The sun shone on a section of the backyard I hadn't noticed before. My body yearned to be like the grass, to soak in the light and warmth of the sun. So that afternoon, I moved my little black bistro table to said spot. I draped it with a white tablecloth…

FIRESPIKE

Marriage, Mindful Living,September 5, 2020144Views 0Likes 0Comments

Wha nuh dead, duh dash ih way. Jamaican Proverb On a recent trip to Panama City Beach, a friend gave me three firespike plants fighting for their lives.The soil was dry, some of the leaves were burned to a crisp, and the few green leaves that remained were struggling between brown and green. “If anyone…

I Wish I was Making This Up

Anxiety, Authors, Black Authors, Black Mothers, Black Struggles, Chronic Pain, DIFFICULT POSSIBILITIES, Diversity, Education, Endometriosis, Family, Featured, Healing, Hysterectomy, Life, Marriage, Mindful Living,, Motherhood, Nature, oophorectomy, Overcoming fearsAugust 26, 20200Views 0Likes 0Comments

Several weeks ago, when I explained the symptoms I was having to my neurologist, he nonchalantly recommended an MRI to rule out two disturbing possibilities: MS and brain tumor. I managed to put one foot before the other, and maintained a false-calm demeanor while I waited. When the neurologist called with the results, Hubby and…

DISTURBING POSSIBILITIES

DIFFICULT POSSIBILITIES, ISLAND FOODS, JAMAICAN DINNERS, SUMMER DINNERSAugust 6, 2020164Views 0Likes 1Comment

Ron, an otherwise abled-bodied gentleman, bagged my groceries at the market. He smiled at me when the scanner went off and, when he picked up the first item to place it in the bag, he announced it with the modulation of a well-trained radio announcer. The scanner beeped and Ran announced: Green bananas Plantains Cabbage…