Monthly Archives: December 2025

FMM 12 26 2025 Could you be Love?

December 26, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones. December has always been my favorite month of the year.  No surprise really, since it is my birth month.  Considering I only saw a tiny bit of December when I was born (on the eve of New […]

FMM 12 19 2025 Don’t Overthink it!

December 19, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 2 Comments

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. Growing up in the country in Jamaica, social events revolved around church and school.  Going to market and doing the weekly supermarket run also provided weekly entertainment, an opportunity to stop and […]

FMM 12 12 2025 Wise Women

December 12, 2025 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.” ~ bell hooks. I remember wearing my first pair of pants.  Long pants.  Warm legs on a cold winter’s day in England, probably when I was about six or seven years old.  Back then, in the early 60s, shorts in the summer (not for ‘going out’ […]

FMM 12 5 2025 The Duty of Delight

December 5, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” ~ John Ruskin. For those who love Jamaica, but who live in the diaspora, these past four weeks or so have been difficult.  While life goes on as usual, there is, always, at the back of one’s mind, at the corner of one’s eye, […]