Home alone

Loreen Sarmiento 12/06/2015

It was heartbreaking. The video shows an old man celebrating Christmas alone. It  was always this  way. Children would promise to come home but as Christmas nears, they’d  beg off for one reason or another. And they…

Canvass

Loreen Sarmiento 11/29/2015

A smartphone ad tells us that “life begins like a blank canvass,”  and so we can go ahead and paint it with anything we want. It’s just the same with what William Shakespeare wrote in his play…

Just like pups

Loreen Sarmiento 11/22/2015

I didn’t expect to play delivery nurse  to my Labrador right in my living room! It was a first. In 2012, my first Labrador gave birth  to 7 pups but because I didn’t want  a mess in…

Guilty?

Loreen Sarmiento 11/15/2015

We live in a time when it’s not that shocking to hear about a son with a drug addiction,  a daughter who gets pregnant out of wedlock, young people who don’t go to Sunday Mass or those…

Rock steady

Loreen Sarmiento 11/08/2015

I didn’t have my car so I had to wait for a tricycle  to take me home. The wait was long. I found myself pacing up and down the road until I came across jagged rocks. I…

Warning?

Loreen Sarmiento 11/01/2015

It was a health scare. Last Friday, I felt a stinging pain in my body’s lower left quadrant. I was sure it was not  muscular or ossein in origin.  I went to the restroom thinking it was…

Deadly Terms

10/25/2015

5 deadly terms used by a woman: 1) FINE: This is the word women use to end an argument when she knows she is right and you need to shut up. 2) NOTHING: means something and you…

Saving lives

Loreen Sarmiento 10/18/2015

His name is Kikoy. The pup’s master is named Kiko. Such is the latter’s love for his pet that he christened  him with  a derivative of  his name. That love was proven one day this month when…

God says

Loreen Sarmiento 10/11/2015

“He said, she said.” This is a common statement refer- ring to conflicting  reports from two or more parties on an issue, usually made by  a man and a woman with no other witnesses. While waiting for…

Accept to give

Loreen Sarmiento 10/04/2015

I cut the Bible this week and it opened to Matthew 10:41. The message version is this: “Accepting a messenger of God is as good as being God’s messenger. Accepting someone’s help is as good as giving…

Stay with me

Loreen Sarmiento 04/19/2015

Last Holy Week, when I joined our community in going through the Way of the Cross, I was greatly touched with the prayer that was said during the 6th Station – Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus.…

Olive tree

Loreen Sarmiento 02/22/2015

In a training session years back, I was asked, “If you’re a bird, what would you like to be?” I immediately replied, “eagle” and I am able to explain why easily. One colleague was asked, “If you’re…

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