Category Global health and disparities
FMM 1 18 19 Slow as Molasses
“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.” ~ Robert Morgan. I have nothing but fond memories of my days as a student nurse. In the traditional way, student nurses spent most of their time on the wards, having a work schedule just like any other employee. In fact, before I had been […]
FMM 1 4 19 A Repurposed Life
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. The old is new again. On my recent trip to the UK we rode from Bolton, a town nestled in the foothills of the Lancashire Pennines, in to the city center of Manchester. Rather than driving […]
FMM 12 21 18 The long way home
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” ~ Matsuo Basho. They say we form memories best by associating things with something else. There are times when a long forgotten scene appears clearly in your mind, along with the associated smells and emotions, triggered by who knows what. You may go to […]
FMM 12 14 18 True Confessions
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.” ~ Karl Marx. I was taught how to be a Jamaican housewife by my Jamaican husband. It was a bone of contention for quite a while. For some reason it seemed implausible to him that I […]
FMM 11 30 18 Take the long way home
“A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone” ~ Isaac Watts. I lived in England for a year when I was around 14. That was the year the first man set foot on the moon (unless the conspiracy theorists are correct!). But there were other more mundane discoveries. Don’t ask me how, […]
FMM 11 23 18 Sparking
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer. I did not know what a shower looked like until I was almost 8 years old. Homes […]
FMM 11 2 18 Calm Energy
“Good words cool more than cold water.” ~ John Ray. In high school my classmates and I were lucky enough to have the same ‘form teacher’ (I guess in the US he would be called our home-room teacher) for five years. I say lucky, because he was one of those rare teachers, a man who […]
