Category Inspirational
FMM 10 30 2026 Such a Luxury
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” ~ Thurgood Marshall. Nursing was my chosen profession, I chose it at a very young age. I had a ‘dress-up’ costume with a cape, an apron and a cap. […]
FMM 10 23 2026 Being Fully Cognizant
“Force always attracts men of low morality.” ~ Albert Einstein. Many years ago, I briefly worked as a case manager. It was a Monday – Friday office job, which for a nurse can seem like heaven! We even wore ‘street’ clothes! It involved a lot of telephone calls, wheeling and dealing between the insurance company […]
FMM 10 16 2026 ‘God nah sleep’
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” ~ Khalil Gibran. I have never studied Shakespeare. I have of course read some of his more popular plays, though usually in a modern form. In the original I find the […]
FMM 10 9 2026 A thing with Feathers
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” ~ George Washington Carver. Ever since I was young, I have had a tendency to ‘overthink’ things. Before any upcoming event, or before going to a new place, my mind will begin to imagine the event, more than anticipation, it is almost a way to plan […]
FMM 9 25 2026 Rebel Music
“What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.” ~ Albert Camus. I recently received a history lesson in a most entertaining way. I attended a performance of the musical ‘Bedward’ with only a slight knowledge of the character it portrayed, a true story of a man […]
FMM 9 18 2026 In a Different Light
“I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.” ~ Mary Oliver. There are some memories that never leave. Although I learned that each time you remember something, you are actually remembering the memory, not the original event. So that, […]
FMM 9 11 2026 Come September
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa. I suppose for most of us over 30, it is not difficult to remember where you were 25 years ago today. I was at home, having been off the night before, watching my usual morning […]
FMM 9 4 2026 My Harshest Critic
“If you live for the compliments, you’ll die by the criticism.” ~Charlamagne tha God. I have often said that my mother was a perfectionist. Of course, in her profession (a high school teacher of shorthand and typing), accuracy was a necessary asset. She would often preach that although speed was also desirable, without accuracy it […]
FMM 8 28 2026 Diamonds in her Soul
“She didn’t see any ‘them’, she only saw ‘us’” ~ Ken Burns. I have never been a big Country and Western fan. In fact, it was not a genre I knew anything about when I was growing up. Living in Jamaica my diet was mostly the local sound (from ska through rock steady to the […]
