Anna Maria Junus

During the Ultimate Blog Challenge, I get a prompt every day to blog about. I don't always use the prompts, but today I am. The prompt was to write about a trip taken. Well, this sent me down memory lane as I read over my old columns. So here you go, published in 2005. Turns out there's a second part, which I will post on Thursday. Oh, update: news on the Roses & Daisies book mentioned. You can purchase an e-copy on Amazon, but I'm re-editing it and publishing it in paperba

The refrigerator - probably the most important appliance in the house. So important that some people have a spare one in the garage and one just for drinks on the patio. You can find appliances to replace the stove, or just not cook, but you can't do much without a place to store your ice cream, ice, or microwavable dinners. Seems to me that innovation stopped in the 1970's. Because this is from the 1950's or 60's. Someone was thinking when they made this. I bet a woman had

The following happened in 1994. I wrote and published this in 2003. After living in cities for all of our lives, several years ago we moved to a small town on the edge of a native reserve. The town was so small that you could insert any one of those small town jokes here, and they would all work. Seriously though, the population of the local school (K-12) was larger than the whole town. Anyway, just before we moved there the town got cable. So the previous owners of the house

I started reading very young. My mother says I began recognizing words when I was two. I do know that I would gather up all my Dr. Seuss book club books (my parents had a subscription) and read them all to myself before I was old enough to go to school. Anyway, when I was in the first grade, my mother had bought a book as a gift for my half-sister whom I had never met. Long story there that I won't get into. It was sitting on the coffee table. It had a bright cover of childre

The title of the blog post was "Ask Me Anything: But Keep it Clean" So Paul, who is the guy in charge who convinces us all to take these Ultimate Blog Challenges, decided to ask me the following questions: How would you react / what would you do if someone asked you something NOT clean? Would you ignore it? Delete it? Skirt around the question? And, as a follow-up, WHY would you do that? I'm convinced Paul is the guy in class who, when the teacher told everyone to bring out

Took a break for Sunday Musings because it was Sunday. Back to Ask Me Anything. Today's Ask Me Anything comes from Barb. What does a perfect Saturday look like for you? Well, first, I would wake up and discover that I have reverted to my 20-year-old self. I'm looking beautiful, have energy, and look great in a bathing suit. I'll also have discovered that I'm in a hotel somewhere in Europe with a full bank account. Upon enquiring at the concierge, it turns out I'm in London.

This is an excerpt from my devotional - The Fruits of the Spirit: Love 1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. When the seven sons of Sceva saw the miracles that Paul performed in the name of Jesus Christ, they decided to do it too. The problem is that they hadn’t accepted Jesus Christ as the Messiah. So when they attempted to call out demons from a man and used the name

Here we are, the third question I got on my Ask Me Anything Blog Post. This one is from Tamara. "If you could have dinner with anyone (alive or historical), who would it be and why?" For me, it's obvious and not original. Many people would give this answer. It would be Jesus. No surprise there since I already gave it away with the title and picture. As an aside - "Dinner With Jesus" sounds like the title of a book. Yes, I know that Jesus is always here, but I'm talking s

I'm liking this "Ask Me Anything". Several days ago, I posted a blog asking for your questions. And because I got several answers, I get several blog posts out of it! One post led to all this. Here's the question from Dani. "Right now, if I looked for "Anna Maria's Life Playlist" on Spotify, which three songs would be the most played?" Confession. I don't have a Spotify playlist. Never have. I don't want to pay for it when I have so much music already, and there's YouTube. B

This is not really me. I'm not that thin and my hair is longer. Yesterday I asked people to ask me anything. You still can if you go back to that post. So here's the first question from a Guest. Hi Guest. I would let you know I answered your question - but I don't know who you are. Is Guest your first or last name? As in "Honour Guest? or Guest Wright? "Do you like to cook and what is your favorite meal to prepare?" The answer is...No. I don't like to cook. I cooked for nin