Under The Olive Tree.

This year the magazine is on hold until Christmas. I am hoping to have articles written and ready to roll so that I can get back to a four times a year publications for 2008. It's a lot of work for one person so I wanted some catch up time.

No Added Sugar

Hoping to have another book done by the end of the year. "Rahab" will be a novel based on the story of Rahab's escape from Jericho and her life as the wife of Salmon and mother of Boaz. She's an interesting woman who lived in very interesting times. Her change of lifestyle from temple prostitute to respectable wife and mother is remarkable.

I am hoping to have other story books to publish over the next few years and then launch them properly when I have a few. I am hoping to fill the gap that Catholic writers have left for people who just want to sit down with a straight forward novel, not too badly written, but not so full or erudite purple passage with deep and meaningful analagous meaning that it takes a week to read a few pages.
Okay, that's the plan.

Posted on Wednesday 17 of January, 2007 [17:38:25 UTC]

Did you see the rainbow over Berkenau? That was a stunning and moving moment. There was Papa Beni asking God how He could have remained silent as so much evil was being perpetrated.
Gen 9:13 I will set my bow in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between me and between the earth."

It was as though God was remembering how He had promised that the earth would not be destroyed in a flood again-no matter how evil men became. But He was also saying come home, forgive, find healing.

The Nazi ideology is still alive today in so many areas. Killing people because they are disabled; eugenics; deciding who is human and who is not.
Hitler killed 6million Jews in those camps of his and he killed about 3million Catholics, thousands and thousands of Gypsys, Christians of varioud demoninations, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexual people and political opponants.

In the lead up to this wholesale slaughter Geobels and his cronies set up a propaganda machine that made films, newspaper articles, posters and books attacking the Jewish people and the Catholic Church.

In a newspaper in the UK a couple of years a go a woman wrote an article in the Guardian that a priest compared with an article Geobels had written during the war. She could have been accused of plagerism they were so alike.
Sad isn't it?
We have not learned a thing really.

But that rainbow told me that God will not always be silent. He has made a covenant and He wont forget even if we do.

And so after my baby's death I am finally back to writing. I did think I would never go back to it. I was too wrapped up in the pain.
That Rainbow was for me too.

Posted on Friday 02 of June, 2006 [15:09:34 UTC]

I just lost another baby.
had the D&C last wednesday. And so another wonderful dream disappears into the dust.
Even so, I know I have not lost him completely or forever-one day my two babies in heaven will, I hope, meet me and say "Hi mum!"
Meanwhile my five treaures for heaven here on earth need taking care of and educating. Homeschooling has been a bit hit'n'miss over the last couple of weeks-just getting it back in gear.

I haven't written anything for a few days either.
I know the myth of being a writer is that the worse things are in life the more prolific and deep the writing, but that's not my experience. I need to have my head in gear to write and I don't write well when I'm struggling with life.

Still, writing is a discipline as much as an 'art' so I had better get back to it.

Maybe one day I will write about the whole business of miscarriage. Not yet, but maybe one day.

God bless

Posted on Wednesday 03 of May, 2006 [16:00:08 UTC]

At last we are reaching the wonderful celebrations of the EAster Triduum.
Tonight we go to Mass and the traditional foot washing will take place. Twelve men and boys sit to have their feet washed by Father in memory of that act of service Jesus did on the night He was betrayed.

Then tomorrow is Good Friday when we go through the last hours of Christ until His death and laying in the tomb.
We go forward and kiss the feet of the corpus on a crucifix in gratitude for the huge Sacrifice He made for each one of us-because He loves us.

Then the altar is stripped and the tabernacle is left empty. It is a time of silence and waiting...

Until we light the fires and the sanctuary is a balze of new clothes, flowers and light. It's utterly beautiful.
This is my favourite Mass of the year.

Christ is the Light and He is Risen Alleluia!!

Posted on Thursday 13 of April, 2006 [16:05:38 UTC]

!text Well this is it.
I have set up No Added Sugar with my first book. I pray that I can bring lots of Catholic books to this site.
I want my six children to know their faith-to be interested in it and to have a grasp of their history.

There are simply too few books out there that can offer them this in a language and style they can relate to.

So here goes- St Bridget pray for me-this is a BIG task.

Posted on Tuesday 11 of April, 2006 [09:59:16 UTC]