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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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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Praying every day

I pray every day because my stakes are so high. I have six kids, a husband who is an entrepreneur, and old house and a large extended family and an even larger group of friends. Many of these friends ask for prayers, many are religious, many are not.
It gives me great comfort to know that [...]

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Marinduque

This morning in this quiet house, I had a message from my cousin from Marinduque that was a time travel ship. He mentioned in passing that his ancestral house on the island of Marinduque, in the town of Gasan was THE house that kept the santos for the annual Lenten celebration. Santos are [...]

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