DEE AND THE RIVER MUMMA AND OTHER TALES
WHY DO I WRITE? I write to share the results of my own creative journey with others who might have similar interests, or at least similar questions to those which I asked or were asked of me then and now: 'Who am I? Who are we? Why are we here?' I was a year out of sixth form and a first job as an aspiring writer/editor, when I began my studies at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus. It was the decade of the seventies, intended to pursue an honors degree in English. However, social sciences and foreign languages offered so many additional possibilities for providing answers to those burning questions of the reasons for life and living, that I graduated with an honors degree in Spanish and English instead, and followed up with a Master's in Literatures in English , and a diploma in Language Arts Education. DEE AND THE RIVER MUMMA AND OTHER TALES One evening when the land is bathed in moonlight, Dee, who lives with her grandparents in Mango Valley, goes ou...