Anna M. Aquino

  In these blogs I have always gone out of my way to be very real with my readers.   So I have a confession to make.   In the years of my life, I have been a Worrying-Controlling-Frustrated-Planner.   I was a worrying kid.   I can remember staying up at nights and mulling over every little conversation and times I could of handled things better.   When I got a hold of the scriptures in Matthew 6 about worrying I got better in this area.   Matt 6:25-34 “ 25  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life [ e ] ?28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flower...

This weekend I had several events in Jackson, OH. It was an awesome weekend that wasn’t void of issues. But I thought I would share. I arrived at the Tea Caddy (a very cute shop in the heart of Jackson) in the downtown ready for a book signing only to realize that the storm the night before in the OH area was a little more vicious that I had realized. The storm had not only wiped out people’s power all over the community, it had left a world of storm drama in its path. The Tea Caddy lost power for about a half an hour in the book signing. Thus not a whole lot of foot traffic came into the store and the signing was okay, but I thought it would go a bit better. But the people were awesome and I had to learn to just go with it. Course I could have chosen to get annoyed and bugged by this, but really that wasn’t going to help. It was what it was, and I can honestly say I’ve had my first book signing in the dark, and really how many people can say that? Then, I was so excited to ...