Category Global health and disparities
FMM 1 19 2024 Don’t throw it all away!
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver. It has been said that travel broadens the mind. The thing about cliches is that they are often true, but repetition has rendered them trite. On my recent visit to Jamaica I was reminded that when […]
FMM 1 12 2024 Going with the Flow
”All night, all day.Angels watching over me.” ~ (Trad). Although I was brought up in the church, I can’t say that the usual vision of heavenly angels was something I actively believed in. Like fairies, elves and gnomes, they seemed to be a little too fantastical to be real. Thus, the concept of life after […]
FMM 12 29 2023 Roads Less Traveled
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ~ Lao Tzu. When I first returned to Jamaica after an absence of some fourteen years, I had already begun writing, filling unruled journals (I did not appreciate the lined versions, which seemed too restricted, too dictatorial) with thoughts and impressions. […]
FMM 12 12 2023 My First Love
FMM 12 22 2023 My First Love “I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December” ~ Claude McKay. My parents came of age in a country at war. Britain was mobilized against the threat of a fascist, one whose dream was to take over the world. My mother was only […]
FMM 11 24 2023 The Luxury of Language
“Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?” ~ Tecumseh. The celebration of Thanksgiving always leaves me conflicted. Who can possibly object to the concept of being thankful, of declaring appreciation for all […]
FMM 11 17 2023 Comfortably Numb
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” ~ James Russell Lowell. I have been thinking about flooding this week. Not surprising really, as once more my neighborhood and many more in South Florida were inundated with torrential, persistent, rainfall. The type of rain that makes you want to stay in bed, […]
FMM 11 10 2023 Where have all the flowers gone?
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” ~ Chief Seattle. I have no idea when I met my first frog. I do remember learning about the amazing life cycle, the eggs looking like a blob with the weird name: frog spawn. The transformation into little wriggling things with tails and […]
FMM 11 3 2023 Senioritis
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” ~ George Washington Carver. When you start a family in a country not of your birth, with traditions similar in some ways, but quite different in others, you stumble around for […]
FMM 10 27 23 Reconstructing Family
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” ~ George Eliot. It seems obscene to say this, but fifty years ago I was a senior in high school (in Upper Sixth Form as we say in the old British system). I had lived most of my life in Jamaica, […]
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