Tag Archives: control
FMM 5 16 2025 ‘Don’t Stress Me!’
“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 12 27 24 Free Spirits
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” ~ Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Early in my marriage a pattern was set, one which assigned me to the role of mediator, the one who kept her tongue to keep the peace. It was almost a role of subservience, which is one I disapprove […]
FMM 4 14 2023 What If?
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus. I used to be an excellent worrier. I somehow felt that if I imagined all of the possible bad outcomes that could happen, then they wouldn’t happen. It would be arrogance on my part (I […]
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