Tag Archives: reggae music
FMM 9 6 2024 Forever Young
“You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.” ~ Kumail Nanjiani. Music and dance are entwined with memories of growing up in Jamaica. Noone ever dared suggest that as a white girl, I did not have rhythm, at least not that I ever heard. Nor did I […]
FMM 5 31 2024 My Life is About This
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”~ Saint Augustine. I suppose when you are relocated from the UK to Jamaica at age seven, then return to the UK after high school to study Nursing, then migrate to the US after Nursing School, it should not be surprising […]
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 9 1 2023 Rock Steady, Baby!
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” ~ Hans Selye. I don’t know when I became a worrier. It would be interesting to know if it was in my nature, or if it was nurtured. I often laughed at a story I told of my mother, who, one night […]
FMM 7 8 2022 Rebel Music
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” ~ Plato. When you grow up in the church, you grow up singing. Nothing like a ‘good sing’ to exercise your lungs, make you feel a part […]
FMM 3 25 2022 I will remember you
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou. My childhood was filled with all kinds of music, from hymns and gospel music; soundtracks of musicals; calypso and jazz; classical and blues; reggae and rock and roll; it wasn’t until I went […]
FMM 10 8 2021 Me and Mrs. Jones
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” ~ Robert Fulghum. The soundtrack of my teenage years was mostly composed of reggae (along with its forbears the ska and rocksteady), with a layer of ‘soul’ music flowing through. It took a while for original Jamaican music to be […]
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