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I finally have a little breathing space.  I have been very busy working as guest-editor for Sea Breeze Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings (www.liberiaseabreeze.com ). I am responsible for the May edition which focuses on the Caribbean Presence In Liberia.  Liberia is located on the West African Coast.  It is a country that was settled by freed slaves with the help of the American Colonization Society which was made up of many abolitionist. Many Liberians are also descendants of Caribbean people who returned to Liberia in the mid 1800s.  I lived in Liberia for 14 years and taught at the University of Liberia.  My three children were born there.  We have since lived in London and now Switzerland.  We are citizens of the world.  It is a wonderful feeling.

I spent last weekend in Geneva, Switzerland attending the Geneva International English Writers Conference. It was wonderful to meet novelists, playwrights, poets and non-fiction writers who helped to guide us, less experienced writers, down the paths to becoming better writers.  It was wonderful to meet fellow writers from all over the world and walk along the promenade of Lake Geneva during out spare free time. I had the opportunity to read my poems to an audience of fellow writers--some famous, some not so famous but we share a love of writing.

This week is Carnival in Basel, Switzerland.  It is called Fasnacht and is different from Carnival in Brazil because it is winter and cold, very Germanic and there are lots of drummers and flutists and brass bands and costumes which feature very grotesques heads, i.e. large masks which exaggerated features. There is a picture of a carnival scene on my blog.

Hope to talk to you soon,

Althea