Tag Archives: Racism
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 15 2024 The ‘W’ Word
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For those who don’t know me, I had a uniquely educational childhood. The youngest daughter of a minister who moved his white family from the UK to the heart of rural […]
FMM 11 8 2024 Our Better Angels
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”~ Saadi. I have no memory of this, but when I was quite young (our family was still living in England at the time), I stood in front of our black and white television and yelled: “Stop talking about Mr. McMillan!” He was the […]
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 25 2024 Sacred Footprints
“Ya running and ya running,But ya can’t run away from yourself.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. It is hard to imagine now, but there was a time when photographs were scarce commodities. Cameras were not ubiquitous. Film was expensive, and you wouldn’t know until it was developed how the photos would turn out. My mother once […]
FMM 9 27 2024 How Very Dare You?
‘Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.’ ~ Helen Keller. When my children were little, their altered understanding of common phrases or things became our name for them. The Hard Rock Stadium was erected a short distance from our home, and in its first naming was the Joe Robbie Stadium. […]
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 […]
FMM 9 13 2024 Imagine a World
“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.” ~ Albert Einstein. Many years ago I attended a day of continuing education classes. All nurses must complete a certain number of hours every two years, in order to renew their nursing licenses. There […]
FMM 8 23 2024 Keep the Faith
“As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross. I have a confession to make. On Friday mornings I get up with my phone, with notes to myself as my guide for what I will […]
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