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A life blog about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness (after 50) called Between the Words and The Waves. I was born on the island and now back on the island of Galveston, Texas. Traded my technical writer pen at NASA Johnson Space Center to be a more laid back storyteller of Children's books inspired by my first grandson and living near the sea. Journaling through the ups and downs of life, love and the pursuit of happiness (after 50) between the words and the waves. That can be the about me part.

The Courage to Love Again

There’s a quiet kind of love that finds you when you least expect it — not the sweeping, storybook kind, but one that arrives like the tide. Soft. Steady. Sure.I wasn’t looking for it. After all, love had already been a chapter in my story — or so I thought. I’d lived a full life: marriage, motherhood, family, faith. I believed that part of me was complete. But somewhere between endings and beginnings, love came again. Not loud or dramatic, just real. And it feels, in many wa

Marisa Folse

Nov 183 min read

Pasta Nonna: A Taste of Love and Family

Every family has its traditions — the small rituals that become the heartbeat of who we are. For me, that rhythm has always come from the kitchen. From laughter, stories, and the smell of simmering sauce on a Sunday afternoon. Pasta Nonna was born out of that love — of faith, family, and food. It’s my first published book, and it feels like a piece of my heart on paper. The story follows a grandmother who teaches her family that food is not just about what we eat, but about h

Marisa Folse

Nov 182 min read

The Blood Runs Through

My story didn’t begin with me. It began across an ocean, in Sicily — in a small village where the sun kissed the hills and the air smelled of olive trees and hope. My grandfather was just a boy when he crossed that ocean, lying on the floor of a crowded ship beside animals and strangers, clutching a pouch of coins his family had sewn around his neck. He arrived in America through Ellis Island, small and scared, but determined. He missed his sponsor — the man who was supposed

Marisa Folse

Nov 183 min read

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The Courage to Love Again

Pasta Nonna: A Taste of Love and Family

The Blood Runs Through

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