A Mayan Family in Belize

The Mayans were the first known people to live in Belize (British Honduras).  Although in they are described as extinct in many academic reports, many indigenous Mayans can still be found in South West Belize, as well as other locations.  I remember visiting Xunantunich Maya ruin for a high school field trip during my teens, while attending St. Hilda's College, and was astounded to see indigenous Mayans that stuck closely to their ancestral cultures and traditions.  How foreign it was to see topless women washing their clothes on the rocks at the river side, and little Mayan children playing nearby.

Mangrove Roots Chronicles

Mangrove Roots Chronicles is book completed in two volumes, based on the life of an African American girl born in Belize, British Honduras in the middle of the baby boom era.  This  book delivers a brief history of this colorful country from pre to post colonialism, in a poignant discourse touching  the different people of that region.  This history is intermingled in a touching story which the chronicles the way of life in Belize from 1955 through 1978, through the eyes of a young girl.

Mangrove Roots Chronicles is a book written to bring joy and laughter, nostalgia and tears, to the readers as it takes them into the life a baby-boomer girl born in Belize.  The name Mangrove Roots Chronicles was derived from the knowledge that mangrove trees are a main source of food and protection for many marine birds and animals.  One of its primary use is as a nursery for young organisms to be nurtured and protected from predators until they are large enough to fend for themselves, when they leave the habitat and the cycle continues.  As a young girl, the author spent a lot of solitary time meditating in a small mangrove forest across the bay on a peninsula in the ghettos of Belize.  Hence, the name Mangrove Roots Chronicles.

Mangrove Roots Chronicles is a book written to bring joy and laughter, nostalgia and tears, to the readers as it takes them into the life a baby-boomer girl born in Belize.  The name Mangrove Roots Chronicles was derived from the knowledge that mangrove trees are a main source of food and protection for many marine birds and animals.  One of its primary use is as a nursery for young organisms to be nurtured and protected from predators until they are large enough to fend for themselves, when they leave the habitat and the cycle continues.  As a young girl, the author spent a lot of solitary time meditating in a small mangrove forest across the bay on a peninsula in the ghettos of Belize.  Hence, the name Mangrove Roots Chronicles.