Monthly Archives: October 2025

FMM 10 31 2025 Invasive Decluttering

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” ~ Buddha. My parents must have moved house at least four times in the first 20 years of their marriage.  Since my father was a minister, each new church came with […]

FMM 10 24 25 Galluping Away!

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Unknown. My mother had a few odd sayings she would throw at me when, as a teenager, I would be obsessing about some perceived flaw (usually on my face).  ‘A blind man and (or on?)  a galloping horse…’ which was […]

FMM 10 17 2025 So Let us Live!

“We been fighting for all the wrong stuff, We better fight to stay in love.” ~ Tanya Stephens. One of my favorite stories about my childhood arrival in rural Jamaica, which I have probably told many times, is about our encounter with a snoring animal.  It was bad enough trying to adjust to the sounds […]

FMM 10 10 2025 Falling for You

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~ Charles Spurgeon. Back in the day, many years ago, before we had personal computers or smart phones, before the Internet, we used to communicate by sending handwritten (or typed, if you were fancy or in business) letters.  These […]

FMM 10 3 2025 Walk a Mile in My Skin

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt. My father was a planner.  Before he moved his family (wife and five children of whom I was the youngest) and all of their worldly […]