Ginnine Josete

Here it is the end of February and in case anyone out there was wondering, Yes, I'm still alive. In case you're keeping track, the last time I blogged - I was having shoulder pain that was interfering with everything in my day-to-day life. To make a long story short, it only got worse and worse and then worse again until I spent every moment in pain and ended each day packed in ice with my husband helping me undress as I couldn't get my arms over my head without sobbing. Afte

How did we get all the way to May? Today is the LAST day of April and where am I at? To be honest I'm mostly on the couch reading while my shoulder heals from some mysterious ailment of pain with a heat pad and rest. I am not good at sitting still! However, it seems that is the remedy at the moment. Mornings are for getting as much done as I can with as little effort as possible so that in the afternoon I can rest the mystery under heat and hope for the best. Ahhhh to get old

Firstly, I will start by apologizing that it's been so long since my last post. It has been a whirlwind here. December brought kidney stones and surgery for my husband and a sinus cold for me. Then we had a stray dog get in our yard and kill most of our chickens. We managed to purchase some more from someone locally to replace them and we've been working through the transition. Christmas came and went, and New Year's Eve followed. On New Year's Day I woke up sick again and I'

It's Thanksgiving in the United States. As we wait for the scalloped potatoes to cook and the whole house fills with the smell of melting cheese, I think about my family who live so very far away. It's always during the holidays that I miss everyone most intensely. I have three grown children and nine grandchildren. They live in another country and most of them are two thousand miles away. They're all very dear to me and I think about them every single day but my thought

I woke up this morning to the first real heavy frost. It was a reminder that we're entering the season of hibernation. While it's not officially winter, it's got that feeling that gets us close enough to it that we can start to appreciate the coming change. The garden is nothing but a pile of dirt with hidden potential waiting for the warmth of summer, far in the distance. The insects, worms and other creepy crawlies have dug deep or found somewhere warm to sleep the cold

How often do we take a break from our lives? For myself and my husband, probably not enough. That’s likely true for many people. We took a trip this week, a mini vacation, and we’re already feeling recharged. Amazingly it’s our second one this year. It was prompted by my husband’s work trip but, since that was only one day, I was able to tag along and we‘re stretching it into a four day walk away from our day to day. We didn’t go very far but it’s still a place that’s f

I just finished writing my fourth novel. It's about a middle aged widow named Gladys. The book is meant to make you laugh, to take you away from the mundane tasks of day to day and just relax for a few hours. Gladys is a little piece of all the women I have encountered in my life rolled up into one fiesty ball. I sent my daughter my first 10,000 words and her response was that she found Gladys to be so real, someone she would know. This, as a writer, was praise of the hi

It's definitely fall, a season by any other name would not be this cold almost overnight. If I put it into true perspective this has been a bit slower than that but there's no denying that only a few weeks ago I was still wearing sun dresses and sandals and today I needed to wear a jacket to take a trip to a local bakery. I had the most delicious Boston cream filled vanilla cupcake I have ever had in my life and it was gluten free, not because I hate gluten. I LOVE gluten