Every Sunday, on the dot, the percolator will start. Someone came in an empty church to start brewing a pot of coffee so that Sunday Scholars will have a coffee perk before the long lectures and endless handshakes begin. As the doors were slowly and mindfully unlocked, the stream of misty-eyed parishioners flocked to the [...]

Of Friendships Beyond Boundaries
 
Have you ever experienced a time where you shrink away because a friend that you were with was under attack? It is instinctive that you start to quiet yourself and shrink away whenever a person whose closely associated to you becomes the focus of another’s rage. Whenever there is conflict near us the [...]

For this month I will conduct a series of easy contests in celebration of the Autumn Season.

 
HMMM Melamine
 
 
Could the boxes of powdered milk in my pantry be laced with melamine?
When I heard about the melamine scare from my mom, I immediately got a box of Nestle’ Carnation Dry Milk from my pantry and inspected its origin. It is surprising that there was no information as to the origin of the milk. [...]

 I am redoing the curtain of my blog home. The last one I had seem a little too stark and drab. I have resolved to write lighter and have fun while doing it. Thanks for visiting this site. If you see anything that needs attention, broken files et al. feel free to comment and I [...]

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. Thanks to my mother-in-law who cooks scrumptious feast with tables of hot steamy food, filling the air with grease/gravy laden turkey, creamy mashed potatoes, green beans to die for, opening a canned strawberry jam that melts on top of fresh oven bread and who loves to put [...]

No, I’m not the expert of blog world, but in the eyes of my dear husband, I am the techiest of techies, the matriarch of the keyboard, and the guru of installing blogs. I have no clue what I was doing, I just smile, say let me reasearch that and spend three or four sleepless [...]

Thanks Nanay Belen for adding me to this game. I really wanted to play.
 
—START TAG—

OUR KID’S NAMES: List all of your kids’ names, or even just one. It’s up to you. Write down the story or the reason why you chose it. If you’re expecting or planning to have more kids and already have a [...]

If you’ve missed the first two parts of this story you can click at

A Daddy’s Perspective [Part 1]
A Hunting Experience  [Part 2]

The continuation…
And what a morning it was. Confident cousin woke up bleary eyed and loose tongued as usual. None of the rest of us could even look at each other for fear of laughing too [...]

The outdoors has always played an important part in my life. When I was 7-11 years old, we lived on a farm in Wisconsin. I lived like Huckleberry Finn. Dad would give me a list of chores to do each day, and then the rest of the day was mine to spend as I liked. [...]

“Mommy, Ashie paints!”                               
 

This was the last sentence I heard while typing away at the keyboard in the basement. I ran up the stairs. I looked over the kitchen wall. I was dumbfounded. My second child, my 20 month-old daughter was still holding a red marker. She decided to paint, and paint she did well. [...]

My blog life is no private affair in our home. Most of the topics that got my attention for the day were usually relayed to my dear husband. We always sat at the back porch, sip our coffee, and talk about people, events and news in our little corner of the blog world. Last night, while doing [...]

Nang dahil kay Reyna Elena at ang kanyang mahiwagang akda,  at kay BluePanjeet sa kanyang mala-nobelang kumento, natuluyan na akong higitin ng aking mahiwagang baul upang hanapin itong tula na naisulat ng nayntin kopong kopong. Sa dami ba namang dapat I-memorize kay Ginnie, kay Freddy at kay Fanny, nalulusaw na ang utak ko. Basta ang [...]

14 SEPTEMBER 2008–High winds with the strength of 34-40 mph with gust at around 60 mph hit Massillon, Ohio last night. It was said to be the combination of the remnants of Hurricane Ike and the oncoming cold front from the northwest side of the continent that hit the City and most parts of Stark [...]

This is a true story I overheard while at church today.
At a church foyer where everybody shook hands and  greeted each other, a woman whispered to her husband, “Why did you wear your stained clothes to church?” The husband quickly replied, “Well, it is white, I usually can’t tell if it is work clothes or church clothes.” [...]