Tag Archives: migrants
FMM 8 30 2024 Better to Give
“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” ~ Bernard Meltzer. When I moved to South Florida in the late 70’s, it was the third big cultural shift I had made in my young (ish) life. My first move had been the most dramatic, emigrating from England to Jamaica at the age […]
FMM 4 19 2024 The Rebel in Me
“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ~ Sojourner Truth. They say you can’t go home again. I have always had a problem with that concept, mostly because I have been fortunate to call many places home in my life. A minister’s family (at least back in the day, […]
FMM 8 23 19 The Essential Migrant
“But please don’t cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up” ~ Tupac Shakur. Around the time that Florence Nightingale was charged with leading a team of 34 nurses to work in a Military hospital in the Crimea, another nurse (or as she was also called, a […]
FMM 6 1 18 Lowest Common Denominator
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway. My husband was a fan of foreign cars. In particular, he developed a fondness for the Italian Alfa Romeo. In our early marriage we were ignorant of how to survive in the USA and so we soon lost the little […]
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