Moi j’ai decide de t’attendre, peut-etre en septembre, tu seras la. That line comes from an old song from a teenybopper television show I used to watch when I lived in Belgium called Helene et les Garcons. I watched it faithfully…along with the rest of the 12-15 year old french-speaking kids in Europe. I wasContinue reading “Peut-etre en septembre…”
Author Archives: Jo Ann Ortega
In My Life…I Loved You More
“And I know I’ll never lose affectionFor people and things that went beforeI know I’ll often stop and think about themIn my life I loved you more” The Beatles Phew, it has been a long time since I posted!! Please forgive my absence but I had a LOT on the go the last six weeks!Continue reading “In My Life…I Loved You More”
Big Brother
Bringing up the ‘family distancing’ earlier this week has me focusing on my family more than ever. It’s been rolling around in my brain for days! I have never understood siblings that stop speaking for years at a time or some such nonsense. I have been gifted only one sibling, a big brother, Brian…and asContinue reading “Big Brother”
Hello to Nova Scotia!
Hello to Nova Scotia!
It’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything and I do apologize for that delay. It is my intention to post something at least weekly. I have written and rewritten a post called “Christmas in July” about a hundred times and I still don’t have the heart to post it. It’s funny cause I amContinue reading “Hello to Nova Scotia!”
A Different Kind of Honeymoon
A Different Kind of Honeymoon
After my family and friends left the island following our wedding, Joan and I set out on what I have called, “a different kind of honeymoon”! We were already in one of the most beautiful locations on this earth, how could we beat it? We didn’t even attempt to. Instead, we used this time toContinue reading “A Different Kind of Honeymoon”
God blessed the broken road
Mom, Dad, Joan and I at La Boca, February 2010
God blessed the broken road
By the time February 2010 came around, I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I was going to spend my life with Joan and had started making plans to ensure that happened. I had spent time with him in April, June, September, November…and then it was finally time. Time for what, you ask?Continue reading “God blessed the broken road”
If I could turn back time…
On June 14, 2009, less than two months after my original trip to the Dominican Republic, I returned to the island with my friend Flora. You hear people say that the islands called to them, but I didn’t believe that was possible until the cries were deafening. I had given my head the stern lecture,Continue reading “If I could turn back time…”
