Category Global health and disparities
FMM 11 15 2024 The ‘W’ Word
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For those who don’t know me, I had a uniquely educational childhood. The youngest daughter of a minister who moved his white family from the UK to the heart of rural […]
FMM 11 8 2024 Our Better Angels
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”~ Saadi. I have no memory of this, but when I was quite young (our family was still living in England at the time), I stood in front of our black and white television and yelled: “Stop talking about Mr. McMillan!” He was the […]
FMM 11 1 2024 Think for Yourself!
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde. Like many children, I grew up seeing the world through the lens of my parents’ eyes – in particular my father. He had a way of making observations that helped you to see […]
FMM 10 25 2024 Sacred Footprints
“Ya running and ya running,But ya can’t run away from yourself.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. It is hard to imagine now, but there was a time when photographs were scarce commodities. Cameras were not ubiquitous. Film was expensive, and you wouldn’t know until it was developed how the photos would turn out. My mother once […]
FMM 10 18 2024 Showdown!
“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. One night this week I awoke from a dream that had a very clear message, so clear that I immediately texted myself (my method of […]
FMM 10 11 2024 Oh Canada!
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have links with Canada on both sides of my family tree. Many years ago, my great-grandparents (on my father’s side) decided to emigrate to Canada. This was their second migration. Earlier, shortly after they got […]
FMM 10 4 2024 If we Should Live up in the Hills
‘Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?Sinnerman where you gonna run to?Where you gonna run to?All on that day.’ ~ Nina Simone. I was spoilt by growing up in a land of lyrical beauty. When Columbus reported back to Queen Isabella of Spain, about the lands he had ‘discovered’, he is said to have described […]
FMM 9 27 2024 How Very Dare You?
‘Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.’ ~ Helen Keller. When my children were little, their altered understanding of common phrases or things became our name for them. The Hard Rock Stadium was erected a short distance from our home, and in its first naming was the Joe Robbie Stadium. […]
FMM 9 20 2024 Sticks and Stones
“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” ~ Barack Obama. I have spent more than 85% of my life living in a land that was not the land of my birth. Thus, as I recently posted on social media, I identify as Immigrant. My […]
FMM 9 13 2024 Imagine a World
“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.” ~ Albert Einstein. Many years ago I attended a day of continuing education classes. All nurses must complete a certain number of hours every two years, in order to renew their nursing licenses. There […]
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