• Love Notes

                            When you're surrounded by people who know you and who love you, it fills your days with gold, giving you room…

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  • Baptism

                          Photo: The newly baptized baby, dressed in light and *vintage lace. *A French antique (1850-1880 thereof,) hand made baptismal gown and cape.

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  • Blog Flirt

                          The girl who usually writes this blog is at her nephew’s baptism. She asked me, Mademoiselle Flirt, if I’d mind to write…

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  • Newborn Nephew

                           Introducing, "Wonder Boy!" My youngest brother's and sister-in-law's newborn baby. Yesterday I held him from sunrise to sunset. Three things I know…

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  • Bonjour

                             It strikes me funny that being in my hometown I say, "bonjour" instead of hello, "pardon" instead of excuse-me, and "merci"…

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  • The Back Roads with my Dad

                    Down the lane we followed the blue sky with its white cotton candy clouds.                 My Dad said, "Hop…

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  • Guest Blogger: My brother Mathew Amaro

    The secluded path on campus, near the creek, was dark that February afternoon. The recent storm was on its way North. I caught a glimpse of her eyes among the…

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  • The Heart

                     The voice of compassion speaks from a wounded heart. The heart that knows the price of love. The one that understands that love does…

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  • Out of the Mouth of Babes

                          My brother's four-year-old daughter was playing by his side while he was tinkering in his shop. At one point he accidentally dropped…

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  • The Back Door

                           The back door is the front door in my childhood home. Everyone uses it except people who are selling something, or those…

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