My Sanctuary

I have been out of work for more than six months now. For the first couple of months or so it was a-OK. Bumming out is easy and user friendly. I don’t need to do extra effort to achieve anything. I am having the time of my life… the good one. I am able to do the things I wanted to do when I was still busy struggling to make a living. I finally find the chance to do my crafts (crochet, beads-work, scrap-booking, and other Martha-Stewart-kind-of-things-that-looked-easy-and-actually-hard-to-do stuff). I have more time and longer hours for sleeping and drifting away to dreamland and the ... Read Full Story

I have stayed away from writing "reflections" for quite awhile. But I have a good alibi. I experienced another "spiritual drought" again. That's my alibi. By saying that... I can hear my mom saying - " I told you, no excuses !". But "bless her soul" I can't think of anything to say to explain my being irresponsible. I have promised myself that this year, I will make my daily personal reflection on the scriptures. I did it for a couple of weeks straight then... I stopped. And I have not written until now. This happened many times in the past for me. I also wrote a ... Read Full Story

It was the night before Christmas, the temperature was below freezing and my hubby had just sneaked the gifts under the tree. I just had my phone conversation with my brother who is in China and that moment hanged a little longer even after we already said goodbye. I felt terrible. Being homesick is an exaggeration if I say that I felt that way. Maybe it was just the huge cup of hot Nestle's cocoa with tons of miniature marshmallows I got from Hannaford that really made me feel bad or perhaps the Christmas movie Santa Claus 2 that I was watching at that ... Read Full Story

I'm barely a year here in Maine. I came May of 2007 and I've survived three seasons of unpredictable changing weather. (I'm now looking forward to spring but not just yet.) I am enjoying winter... a lot. Coming from a tropical country, winter is a new twist. This is my first time to see, feel, smell and taste... snow. And I am constantly awed by it's beauty. Snow came early this year (a couple of weeks before the official winter season). Too early but just the right time to stage a wonderful white christmas for a person who never had it all her life... Read Full Story