Tag Archives: One Love
FMM 8 2 2024 What’s Love got to do With it?
“Father, fatherWe don’t need to escalateYou see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.” ~ Marvin Gaye. Twenty-five years ago, before my father started to show evidence of cognitive decline, one of my nephews got married. Three generations of the family were represented, and my father, although he no longer officiated at […]
FMM 3 8 2024 Big Tree, Small Axe
“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.” ~ Marcus Garvey. When I started high school in Jamaica, one of the highlights of this new experience was the ‘social’ also known as a ‘boogie’. I suppose at the time the twin influences of the […]
FMM 2 23 2024 Act Three
“I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.” ~ Walt Mossberg. My father retired from full-time employment at the age of almost 66. At the time he was in fairly good health (although he had suffered a heart attack over a […]