Tag Archives: Systemic racism

FMM 6 19 2026 Words Misspoken

‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I learned to read quite early, although I cannot tell you at what age.  When I went to school in England, the way of teaching reading and writing was by the phonics […]

FMM 7 16 2021 Lift the Curse!

“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” ~  Orson Welles. Mother-daughter relationships are tricky.  I am not one of those who can say my mother was my best friend.  Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but it never occurred to me to ‘tell my mother everything’.  As a matter of fact, I […]

FMM 8 21 2020 Hear me

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ~ James Baldwin. My mother was a talker.  Later in life we surmised that her childhood may have been difficult, parents who sometimes didn’t speak to each other for months, so perhaps the children developed the […]