Category Global health and disparities
FMM 3 22 19 Intentionality
“When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.” ~ Dean Ornish. My father was a man who had great faith, but who also believed in doing his part to ensure good outcomes. He would say he always knew when God wanted him to do something […]
FMM 3 15 19 Real Talk
“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” ~ Grace Jones. I don’t remember when (if ever) I got the ‘birds and the bees’ talk, but I heard about girls and periods early. They didn’t want to tell […]
FMM 2 8 19 Where do you put your eye?
“We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon” ~ Joni Mitchell. When I first decided I wanted to write I bought a subscription to a magazine called Writer’s Digest. There were many helpful articles such as how to get published, how to jumpstart ideas, and other tips and suggestions. I had […]
FMM 2 1 19 You in your small corner (Refurbished)
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” ~ Saint Augustine. Seventy-seven years ago today, a man in his early thirties made a promise that has been repeated over and over again since that Sunday in Salem Congregational Church: “Tomorrow, by God’s grace, I will light a […]
FMM 1 25 19 Scrambled eggs and handkerchiefs
“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” ~ Brene Brown. I have always admired poetry. If I were a poet I would choose my words with care, then slice and dice and splice lines together so clean and pretty it would take your breath away. Those words […]
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, […]
