A Lovely Evening

Tonight, in an attempt to rescue a day largely consumed with the dread of a computer failure, and the loss of valuable work, we called it a day and went downtown. All day we were trying different solutions, when finally we found out that the backup indeed had worked. Relieved [...]

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Ghosts of Christmas Past – a ramble of memory

I could have grown up into a depressed cynic, who lost the happiness lotto because of life experience and baggage. But, deep down in me always lived the soul of a happy child and an almost boring stability. I was not particularly brave or articulate as a child, but a child nonetheless, like all [...]

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Thanks-filled

Speechless and humbled and filled with joy, I am. Stumbling upon this on this great and bountiful holiday, time stopped.
Thanks-filled
by my daughter, Ana-Maria
I.
I am thankful for this sturdy table,
worked by hand, and cloaked in handworked linen
to mask the stains and gouges left
by the feasts and frolics of many generations.
Lost legacies, stowed away in cupboards,
in [...]

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Thanksgiving

There isn’t anything more that I want,
than what I have tonight.
All chairs filled around the table,
all voices going at once.
All my babies yet,  grown people with
their own visions of their own lives.
They are only lent to me,
to coddle and carry during their baby years,
they taught me about the biggest love of all,
that washes away moonlight [...]

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Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread by Joan Wester Anderson

I first read Joan Wester Anderson’s work back in the early 1990’s when I found her first angel book, “Where Angels Walk”. Her writing is clear, engaging, and her stories are riveting.
Fourteen more angel books have followed through the years, and my family’s bookshelf holds them all. The books are beloved by all of us, [...]

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