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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Summer Days of Yore

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a faraway land, there were summers to remember. Not that I don’t remember my summers now. But now, I am the activities director. In my childhood, I was beneficiary of the grownups’ ideas.
Lucky for me, they had great ideas, like sending our cousins up from Manila [...]

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Today January 18th

Today I am thinking about being very young, maybe 19, and walking in the halls of Arts and Sciences at the University of the Philippines at Diliman, with an old dear friend who is still a dear friend. We were quoting back and forth from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Two college students, with all our [...]

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