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FMM 2 3 2023 The Best of Us, the Worst of Us
“We’re one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.” ~ John Lewis. The best authors pull you in with their first sentence. It was Charles Dickens, that great storyteller, who has one of the best first sentences of all times, which inspired the title of […]
FMM 2 24 17 Challenge your Assumptions
“You must stick to your conviction, but prepare to abandon your assumptions.”~ Denis Waitley. One of the first riddles I learned to tell was (and this is better spoken than written): “What is black and white and red (read) all over?” The answer was a newspaper. I grew up in a household that read newspapers religiously. […]
FMM 2 3 17 Fine Print
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”~Albert Schweitzer. My father-in-law was a simple man. His wife died and left him with four young kids, and he raised them in the old-fashioned Jamaican way, sure that firm discipline and education were essential to a good upbringing. […]