Tag Archives: family
FMM 7 4 2025 Ode to Joy
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ~ Emily Dickinson. After seven days of activities and events here in Jamaica that have produced so many moments of joy, I am not sure how I will report on them in just one post. But perhaps I can tempt your senses with […]
FMM 6 20 2025 Amplifying Hope
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ~ Desmond Tutu. My thoughts have been on my childhood a lot recently. Ever since I was invited to be the guest speaker at my old primary (elementary in the US) school’s graduation, I have been reminiscing about those days […]
FMM 4 11 2025 It’s a MAD…world!
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” ~ Walt Whitman. Confession time. There have been a couple of times in my life when my fantasies have helped me to make a decision. I realized that I needed to end my marriage when I had started to think my life would be better if […]
FMM 3 14 2025 Holding Space
“… everything on earth can be eliminated under the right conditions.” ~ Louise Erdrich. Some years ago I had an experience which proved invaluable in the classroom: I witnessed a man experiencing the sudden onset of a stroke. We were at a fundraising dance together, he had gone to buy us a drink each, and […]
FMM 2 28 2025 Happy place, Sad reason
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” ~ Marianne Williamson. I first learned about hurricanes when I was almost eight years old and traveling to Jamaica on the S.S. Ascania with my family and a […]
FMM 12 20 2024 What is your Why?
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose own way.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. Around 40 years ago, my first child graduated from kindergarten. I remember being very emotional, the sight of her so serious, […]
FMM 11 29 2024 In All Things, Give Thanks
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche. I have a complicated relationship with the Thanksgiving Holiday. Like most people born outside of the USA, it was not a holiday which permeated my consciousness until I arrived here in the late 70s. Since I moved to be with my […]
