Category Global health and disparities
FMM 10 13 2023 Make Love Not War
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” ~ Francis of Assisi. I have never been good in a fight. Physical fights were not allowed in our household growing up. When the church is a big part of your upbringing, ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘a soft […]
FMM 10 6 2023 Where I lay my hat
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~ Maya Angelou. Traditions are funny things. One of the reasons that special seasons have special meaning is because we do the same thing each year. In England, going to Pantomime around […]
FMM 9 15 2023 For the Nurses
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” ~ John Constable. I know without a doubt that my life would have been very different had I not been transplanted at an early age […]
FMM 9 8 2023 ‘Don’t be so puerile!’
“Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.” ~ Jeetendra. I learned to read when I was very young but of course I would stumble against unusual words. For some reason I can remember learning to say the alphabet in phonetic style rather than naming the letters, so that one day I was […]
FMM 8 18 2023 Change the Narrative
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray. My father was a man that many confided in. Whether it was because of his profession (a minister and teacher) or personality, he had a ready ear, and gentle words of advice. Of course, as his kids, we may have heard words that were […]
FMM 8 11 2023 The Price of Greatness
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” ~ Stewart Udall. The year after Jamaica attained Independence from the colonial power of Britain, my father bravely (with his entire family and all our worldly goods) took us across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean island of Jamaica. I was the youngest, so I had very […]
FMM 8 4 2023 Grinding Gears
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.” Sextus Empiricus. The first time I had anything to do with changing gears in a manual (stick shift) car, I was about nine or ten. A group of us children were driven to school in an Austin Cambridge, by the uncle of one of […]
FMM 7 28 2023 Whither the Weather?
“I have forgotten much, but still remember Poinsettia’s red, blood-red, in warm December.” ~ Claude McKay. When I left England at age almost eight, it was a rainy, damp place. Skies and buildings were drab and grey. I am sure there was sunshine, occasionally, but it was in sharp contrast to the tropical island we […]
FMM 7 21 2023 True Colors
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. Early in my marriage, my home was a place where there would be consequential arguments about significant topics like historical and social injustice. Friends who came over would be engaged in […]
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