Monthly Archives: May 2026
FMM 5 29 2026 When the Wood is Green
“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” ~ Sophocles. Full disclosure: Having recently returned from a road trip that ended at 3:00 am a few days ago, I am still lagging. We traversed eleven states to our furthest destination, and returned through an additional five, seeing beautiful countryside, trees in full Spring-time greenery and blossoms, and avoiding […]
FMM 5 22 2026 Spring Always Comes
“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” ~ John Muir. When I first arrived in the US as a newly graduated nurse, I knew American History only vaguely. So I was floored when, in an encounter with […]
FMM 5 15 2026 Hold a Medz
“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” ~ Warren G. Harding. My father, a Christian and a Pacifist, went before a tribunal during World War II to defend his belief that he had no right to kill his fellow man. His appeal was approved, but unlike […]
FMM 5 8 2026 Reciprocity
“For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, If only we’re brave enough to be it” ~ Amanda Gorman. I don’t remember how I felt about mathematics as a child. When we moved to Jamaica, I started out in a small private ‘Prep’ school, and was doing well until I […]
FMM 5 1 2026 Legends and Myths
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” ~ Octavia E. Butler. I was an avid reader as a child. Well, I guess I still am! But I remember in particular a book called ‘Swallows and Amazons’. It was a story of imagination, told from the point of view of a group […]
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