On my third year in college — and that’s some 11 years ago — I wondered why I want to be a lot of things when I “grow up.” I was an officer and a member of…
Turks and Caicos — Eighth day on this boat and I have only seen one child with a staff from Crystal Cruises who’s with her all the time. I am starting to turn weepy and whiny as…
NEW YORK — The plane landed on John F. Kennedy International Airport after a 15-hour flight from Guangzhou on board a Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft of China Southern Airlines. Unlike the June 2016 flight from Los Angeles…
I had been at war with my full figure since I got back in the Philippines last June. Telling myself “I am so fat” has since become a habit. I have equated the size of my arms…
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten,” wrote the English journalist and The Jungle Book author, Rudyard Kipling. Kipling’s words were swimming in my brain as I temporarily resigned from…
Dear Jeffrey Peter Junior, I look at you and I see a happy baby. I look at you and I see God’s love for me. I look at you and I know that you are the blessing…
There are several issues which come with being married to a white man and you are living in the Philippines (or perhaps in my case, Cebu City). I will write three of them in this entry. One,…
The teacher announced during the regular monthly meeting that parents are encouraged to present a Filipino dance during the school’s culminating activity for Buwan ng Wika. It is August after all and the customary celebration of honoring…
Graduate school is tough. The overconfident 2014 version of myself did not realize this. I was a mother to then one-year-old twins and the family was based in Guangzhou, China. The original plan was to work on…
Joy and Elsie entered our lives a week after I gave birth to the twins in 2013. They were my mother’s students when she taught catechism at a public elementary school in Leyte. I needed at least…
