PROLOGUE
December 1992
The background of this children’s book has a distinctive Caribbean flare. Remembrance of Christmas opens windows on different cultures and their similarities. The comparable backgrounds I feel children the world over can relate to and also adults. Remembrance of Christmas narrative was drawn from memorable episodes of the Christmas season in my life “as a child growing up” in Guyana, South America and Ghana, West Africa.
My desire to write about the joys of Christmas was ironically triggered by a feeling of sadness.
It was close to Christmas day I was far from home in New York, and I had not received a Christmas card from my son who then lived in Guyana. It was a cold day the snow had fallen all night and into the morning. I was on my way to work and had just missed the bus; all I could do was stand and lament. Then it slowly dawned on me I had to snap out of this feeling of sadness before it affected my new loving family. Hence the idea for Remembrance of Christmas was born.
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