It is Mother’s Day in Portugal and Spain today, something that threw me off the loop last year, and I can’t really say I was
Author: FrogDiva
Writer, traveler, photographer - channelling the inner thoughts and emotions through the camera lens in homage to life, light, and the soul. These are the musings of a FrogDiva.
Photography and writing are pillars of my soul, and hence, inseparable from my being. The urge to write about what I photograph or match a photograph to my writings are processes that are never far from one another.
Why frogs? They are adaptable creatures who live and survive just about any environment you expose them to. They are short, chubby, not particularly pretty, but carry a wealth of experience with them. I collect them with a passion (the decorative type, not the live ones), and they are a reminder to return to the simplicity and spirituality of my being, but always making the most of each day, savouring every moment.
The Garden Transformation – Part III (Never Judge A Tree By Its Bare Branches)
“And the garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles” Frances Hodgson Burnett For the past seven months I have been observing a
The Cherry Diaries: Happy Adoptiversary To Me!
Dear Diary, Wow, can you believe that this is my fifth adoptiversary with Mommy? It was five years ago to date when she picked me
Finding My Mojo (Verde)
When my daughter came to visit me last December, she was still living in Fuerteventura and brought me a jar of mojo verde, a multipurpose
Post-Easter 2023: Transformative Silence
One of the most challenging parts of the solitary hermit life is when the holidays roll around. Even though I grew up as an only
If You Are Tired… II
Roughly a year ago I wrote a blog entry ten days after arriving in Lisbon that contained two valuable insights about my new life in
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