Tag Archives: history
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 3 21 2025 Imaginary Engineers
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker. I was a bedside nurse in the 1980s, a time when the way the government reimbursed hospitals for patient stays was upended completely. Prior to this time, any patient whose insurance was paid for by the […]
FMM 1 31 2025 This is just a Test
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” ~ Albert Bandura. I was one of those annoying students who enjoyed exams. I looked forward (although still with a touch of anxiety) to show what I knew. Like an athlete […]
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 […]
FMM 11 1 2024 Think for Yourself!
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde. Like many children, I grew up seeing the world through the lens of my parents’ eyes – in particular my father. He had a way of making observations that helped you to see […]
FMM 10 11 2024 Oh Canada!
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have links with Canada on both sides of my family tree. Many years ago, my great-grandparents (on my father’s side) decided to emigrate to Canada. This was their second migration. Earlier, shortly after they got […]
FMM 9 20 2024 Sticks and Stones
“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” ~ Barack Obama. I have spent more than 85% of my life living in a land that was not the land of my birth. Thus, as I recently posted on social media, I identify as Immigrant. My […]
