Tag Archives: Dolly Parton
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 […]