Monthly Archives: January 2025

FMM 1 31 2025 This is just a Test

January 31, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” ~ Albert Bandura. I was one of those annoying students who enjoyed exams.  I looked forward (although still with a touch of anxiety) to show what I knew.  Like an athlete […]

FMM 1 24 2025 The Bully Pulpit

January 24, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt. These past weeks have been an interesting walk down memory lane for me.  Last week I was dipping into documents written by some of my elders and reading of life in Jamaica in the 1830’s through to the 1960’s, along with […]

FMM 1 17 2025 Past as Prologue

January 17, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

‘What no cost life, no cost nut’n.’ Jamaican saying. Yesterday I lost myself in stories of the past.  I was entrusted with some documents belonging to (and written by) a man who is now almost 90 years old.  There were references to people and places of my past, of the church my father was minister […]

FMM 1 10 2025 Stardust and Stories

January 10, 2025 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

“All autobiography is storytelling; All writing is autobiography.” ~ J. M. Coetzee. I have spent the year so far in what I like to call ‘the land of my rebirth’.  Having been born in the UK and moved to Jamaica at age almost 8, I came of age here.  It is a place both beautiful […]

FMM 1 3 2025 Walk Good!

January 3, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

FMM 1 3 2025 Walk Good “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” ~ Cesare Pavese. I have often said (or thought, or written) that what helps make the Holiday season special, that magic time at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, is the rituals.  Doing the […]