Santa Visits Barbados!... Today begins as any normal Saturday morning begins for Greg and me: we get up early and head up to the Brighton Farmers Market. Once we arrive at the market, like we always do, we start our shopping with a cuppa joe.  Plenty of milk in mine, please… Then we buy some fresh eggs … Oh, yes,...

Pining for Christmas Trees in Barbados... A Caribbean Christmas When I was a kid growing up in Colorado, my father and brothers would go into the mountains and cut down a charmingly misshapen pine tree, tie it with rope to the top of the family station wagon, and haul it home.  In snowy, mountainous Colorado it makes sense to have a fresh pine...