Category Global health and disparities
FMM 7 6 18 I’m Only Human
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”~ George Orwell. The first time I visited Jamaica after an absence of over 14 years, I fell in love all over again. It was not difficult. For a start I was staying up in the verdant hills of St. Andrew, looking up at the […]
FMM 6 29 18 Ducking and Running
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”~ Elbert Hubbard. I aborted my exercise class after 45 minutes yesterday. It was the first time I had attempted kickbox cardio in a while and it was kicking my butt! One of the big disadvantages of being a person of the Caucasian persuasion is that it is not […]
FMM 6 22 18 Running in Heels
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”~ Dalai Lama. I grew up wearing uniforms. From the time I was in elementary school through to the time I became a Nursing Supervisor, I did not need to think what I would wear to school or work. It made life simple, but […]
FMM 6 8 18 Beds are Burning
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”~ Sojourner Truth. What is your comfort food? We humans have some very strange practices, often wasting energy on activities that have no tangible benefits. The compulsive repetitive practices of people with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) begin with basic healthy principles (such as hand washing, checking to see […]
FMM 6 1 18 Lowest Common Denominator
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway. My husband was a fan of foreign cars. In particular, he developed a fondness for the Italian Alfa Romeo. In our early marriage we were ignorant of how to survive in the USA and so we soon lost the little […]
FMM Postponed 5 25 18 Teach the Children Well
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy. Children can be cruel. Before we learn to be kind and thoughtful, we often say the first thing we think. There are many ‘viral videos’ that are evidence […]
FMM 5 18 18 Angels on my Shoulder
“And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?”~ Khalil Gibran. One hundred and thirty years ago today, my paternal grandmother was born in Argentina. She was born to a family of immigrants, Welsh settlers who had set […]
FMM 5 11 18 Live Until you Die!
“We been fighting for all the wrong stuff We better fight to stay in love.”~ Tanya Stephens. I went on a trip to Jamaica one year, the kind of trip where you don’t do any of the touristy things, yet you do those things which the average person who lives on the island doesn’t do. […]
FMM 5 4 18 Intentional Appreciation
“Love is not just tolerance. It’s not just distant appreciation. It’s a warm sense of, ‘I am enjoying the fact that you are you.’” ~ N. T. Wright. Have you ever been asked, or asked yourself, ‘What is your purpose? Why are you here?’ I guess most of us, at some point, try to get […]
FMM 4 27 18 Adjudication Withheld
“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”~ Jean de La Fontaine. Sometimes it is hard to imagine how far we have traveled in the past 60 years. Even less than that. Nowadays you can tell the age of a movie from the presence (or absence) of cell phones, and […]
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