Monthly Archives: May 2025

FMM 5 30 2025 Nothing at All

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” ~ James Baldwin. I was not a particularly self-confident child, although as to whether that was innate or learned behavior is a question […]

FMM 5 23 2025 Secrets and Shame

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.” ~ Friedrick Nietzsche. One of the joys of retirement is that road trips can be the way to get to far distant events.  This also means that routines are disrupted, and Friday morning messages are late! Which is the case […]

FMM 5 16 2025 ‘Don’t Stress Me!’

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia.  I migrated to the US in 1978, fresh out of nursing school in the UK (land of my birth), after growing up in Jamaica (land of my rebirth).  My boyfriend had moved to Miami, and that was enough […]

FMM 5 9 25 ‘Follow me Part-way’

“We are all just walking each other home” ~ Ram Dass. I have had some interesting conversations while walking with different people during my life.  For a start I grew up walking.  Not like in the US where it seems you drive everywhere, at least here in South Florida, especially in the hot, humid, summertime.  […]

FMM 5 2 2025 ‘A it mek!’

“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” ~ Desmond Tutu. One of the great defining features of my life was the fact that my family moved from a city in the UK to the heart of rural Jamaica when I was […]