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FMM 5 16 2025 ‘Don’t Stress Me!’

May 16, 2025 · by · in Food and health, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia.  I migrated to the US in 1978, fresh out of nursing school in the UK (land of my birth), after growing up in Jamaica (land of my rebirth).  My boyfriend had moved to Miami, and that was enough […]

FMM 11 22 2024 No Time for Tears

November 22, 2024 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“They don’t want to see us uniteAll they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. More than 25 years ago, a very close friend of my husband was murdered.  In cold blood, in his driveway one morning.  He (the friend) had been involved with some unsavory characters and […]

FMM 9 8 17 Silencing Critics

September 8, 2017 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”~ Carl Jung. To those of us who grew up trying to please others, the opinion of others matters far too much.  Children whose parents have a particular standing in the community (here I am thinking of parsons and teachers) grow up […]

FMM 7 1 16 Look both ways!

July 1, 2016 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational · Leave a comment

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”~Theodore Roosevelt. Things and times have changed.  When I was no more than 7 years old, I was entrusted with an awesome responsibility: I had to travel home from school unsupervised.  This was in Manchester, a busy city in England.  Once a […]

FMM 8 29 14 Satisfy your Soul

August 29, 2014 · by · in Inspirational · Leave a comment

”It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to the imagination.”~Henry James Thoreau   Jamaicans have a way with words.  One of their favorite adjectives is ‘nuff’.  And though it sounds as if it derives from the word ‘enough’, it is used to denote more than […]