Anna M. Aquino

              Most of you know my story.   God called me into ministry at the age of 12, and to write my first book at the age of 16.    I was a kid that no one would have expected this out of: I wasn’t the greatest writer, I always just wanted to fit in, and would have NEVER dreamed that I would be doing the things I am doing today.   I had this crazy notion that it would be an easy adventure, and that the hard part would be writing the books.   It hasn’t been the easiest journey, and honestly the easy part is writing.   The part that has felt like it was the wall of Jericho has been the publishing side. It took me a few years to really start working towards this goal, and I really started this journey in 2000. God broke through that in 2012 when Cursing the church or Helping it? was released and then earlier this year a publisher picked up Confessions of a Ninja Mom .   ...

            When we were house training our dog Mojo, we hung a single jingle bell by a ribbon on the inside door knob.   The concept is fairly simple.   He learned quickly if he had to go outside to ring the bell and we’d let him out.   Last year when going out to go to the bathroom, was still a fairly novel idea to him we had some issues with our cable internet.   A worker arrived to fix the cable in the back.   Mojo started to ring the bell.   I thought the dog just wanted to bug the worker so I didn’t let him outside.   I ignored the first few rings.   But Mojo didn’t stop.   He got indignant ringing that bell.   I didn’t want to let him out with the cable worker.   He’d be in the way, I didn’t know how this man was with dogs, the back gate was open so the worker could go in and out, etc.   Mojo kept ringing the bell, and I kept ignoring him.   Finally I loo...