GOOD AS GOLD

There is so much to say about the 'amazing" for lack of a more appropriate adjective, young Jamaican track and field team and their performance in Bejing and now Berlin. I will not mention the performance of Usain Bolt, since the pages of this electronic journal cannot purvey the emotion he brought out of me on Sunday. The skeptics are allowed to do their jobs and question his integrity. Meanwhile, this interview with GOLD MEDALIST SHELLY-ANN FRASER speaks to the motivation and spirit of the team. She is so echt and exudes such positive energy.....

Longing for home, marooned in America