Anna M. Aquino

            It’s been a challenging winter for my ex-Florida family for a whole list of reasons.  My family has been through some major changes and snow is something none of us appreciate.  While we are exactly where God wants us to be the gray Ohio days and lack of flip flop weather has made us all a tad irritable. My own children have been caught in the “Mom, when can we go outside in shorts again” blues.             This afternoon as I was going throughout my day I heard a bird call, and something deep from my childhood triggered on the inside.  I knew that bird call (not even sure what type of bird it was), but I knew if I heard that call that spring was in the air. Inside of my head I started getting hugely excited!  “Spring is here!” I wanted to twirl around the room singing old fashioned Broadway musical show tunes.  I wanted to start a cho...

            Recently one of my literary hero’s began to follow me on social media.  I don’t need to tell you who it is.  I want him to eventually work with me on my fiction books.  He knows it.  We’ve exchanged emails in years past. I think he’s the “bomb” in the land of Christian fiction.             There is a fine line while people believe in faith for the manifestation of the things of God.  In the Bible story about the woman and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8), Jesus is using this to talk about being persistent. One has to learn to stay persistent in these situations; however one doesn’t need the person to want to put a restraining order against them for their thoughts of what appears to be crazy.  I once read one literary agent say that she had a ‘potential client’ once track her down at her personal home address and call her during a fa...