Tag Archives: writing

FMM 7 24 2026 Don’t follow the crowd!

“I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.” ~ Lynn Nottage. When I was growing up, church on Sunday was an absolute.  No exceptions.  I used to joke that (especially as one of the children of the Parson), you would have to have diarrhea and a fever to get out of it.  […]

FMM 7 17 2026 Reboot, Reboot!

“In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love.” ~ Brock Peters. The ability to read quickly is not necessarily a good thing. In my (former) work life, I often forgot, or even denied, receiving an email, only to find I had not only received it, I […]

FMM 4 3 2026 What the X?

“You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!” ~ Sai Baba. By courtesy of being connected once more to the world wide web and one of its search engines, I learned something new […]

FMM 3 6 2026 Can we Talk?

“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” ~ Desmond Tutu. I self-published my first book over ten years ago, but I had been writing for years before that.  At first it was handwritten in blank, unlined journals, writing down impressions of my travels, a few crappy poems, […]

FMM 1 2 2026 Reflections

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton. One of the most annoying things we ask children is ‘What do you want to be when you grow up.’  I was reminded of that in a conversation with a four-year-old who, without being asked, […]

FMM 12 19 2025 Don’t Overthink it!

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. Growing up in the country in Jamaica, social events revolved around church and school.  Going to market and doing the weekly supermarket run also provided weekly entertainment, an opportunity to stop and […]

FMM 10 10 2025 Falling for You

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~ Charles Spurgeon. Back in the day, many years ago, before we had personal computers or smart phones, before the Internet, we used to communicate by sending handwritten (or typed, if you were fancy or in business) letters.  These […]

FMM 10 3 2025 Walk a Mile in My Skin

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt. My father was a planner.  Before he moved his family (wife and five children of whom I was the youngest) and all of their worldly […]

FMM 8 22 2025 Stutter-stepping through Life

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox. When it comes to gifts and blessings, the nurse learns early on that health has to be number one.  Even if you were not exposed to illness before entering the healthcare field, it is not long before you […]

FMM 7 25 2025 Writing my Truth

“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” ~ Alice Walker. It hit me this week that I am not familiar with my children’s (now adults) handwriting.  It was when I was reading over something my father had written in 1992 about the town I grew up in, in Jamaica.  Those […]