What’s in a number?  Art Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong and ArtsEtc Inc.

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too, yeah
The Beatles, “Birthday”

I ALMOST MISSED my own party.

Party?

Nah.  More like the entire birthday.

It was my business partner and partner in literary activism, Linda M. Deane, who had to point out the date.

“So…what are we doing about our twenty years?”

Say what?

When?

“This year.  It’s ArtsEtc’s twentieth anniversary.”

Nick Whittle (r) in conversation with National Cultural Foundation CEO Carol Roberts-Reifer and Gustavo Pandiani, the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to Barbados.  Photograph Copyright © 2019 by the NCF.

A Reaction to Nick Whittle’s Exhibition Other Lives

WITHOUT EXPENDING a huge amount of imagination, I find myself cast into the middle of a gigantic ocean. On a ship or, maybe, beneath it, at one with the churning waves.