Category Global health and disparities
FMM 5 30 2025 Nothing at All
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” ~ James Baldwin. I was not a particularly self-confident child, although as to whether that was innate or learned behavior is a question […]
FMM 5 23 2025 Secrets and Shame
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.” ~ Friedrick Nietzsche. One of the joys of retirement is that road trips can be the way to get to far distant events. This also means that routines are disrupted, and Friday morning messages are late! Which is the case […]
FMM 5 2 2025 ‘A it mek!’
“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” ~ Desmond Tutu. One of the great defining features of my life was the fact that my family moved from a city in the UK to the heart of rural Jamaica when I was […]
FMM 4 11 2025 It’s a MAD…world!
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” ~ Walt Whitman. Confession time. There have been a couple of times in my life when my fantasies have helped me to make a decision. I realized that I needed to end my marriage when I had started to think my life would be better if […]
FMM 4 4 2025 Tan Tuddy!
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ~ Peter Marshall. I was a frontline nurse working in Miami when AIDS appeared, with all of the unknowns that went along with it. In the early years it seemed to be […]
FMM 3 28 2025 I Plead the First
“Why should I be afraid of the pestilence that crawleth by night?” Tony Rebel. Because I am the youngest in my family and the last to leave home, I spent my last four years in high school as an only child. That wasn’t exactly true, since we always had ‘boarders’, friends from high school who […]
FMM 3 21 2025 Imaginary Engineers
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker. I was a bedside nurse in the 1980s, a time when the way the government reimbursed hospitals for patient stays was upended completely. Prior to this time, any patient whose insurance was paid for by the […]
FMM 3 14 2025 Holding Space
“… everything on earth can be eliminated under the right conditions.” ~ Louise Erdrich. Some years ago I had an experience which proved invaluable in the classroom: I witnessed a man experiencing the sudden onset of a stroke. We were at a fundraising dance together, he had gone to buy us a drink each, and […]
FMM 3 7 2025 The Boss of Me
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ~ Maximilien Robespierre. Evelyn was the first person who befriended me when I was the new girl in school. I was more than new, I was different, a little girl in rural Jamaica, with an English accent […]
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