Getting your child in school mode after a long break

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/04/2020

January 2 may have been the first day that majority work force got back to  their daily grind but January 6 is when pandemonium will really break lose.  Traffic situation in northern Cebu, particularly in the towns…

Happy New Year and Viva Pit Señor!

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/28/2019

I learned about my twin pregnancy on 12/12/12.  It looks like the kind of date that an airline or an online shopping store will dive right in and execute a crazy sale blitz.  In my case, I…

Joy to your homes

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/21/2019

Mothers reach their tipping point somewhere along the road of being superwoman, who appears to have everything under control. I reached mine on a Thursday night when I came home at 11:58 p.m. to a daughter who…

The essence of pageantry

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/14/2019

Let us talk about beauty pageants and what it means to young women in this modern world.  When it is Miss Universe season, I drop off everything to focus on the competition. It has been the case…

Technology and children

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/07/2019

One of my close friends called me on a busy Friday evening to tell me that she was “very disturbed.” She was having dinner with her six-year-old daughter when she asked, out of the blue, what the…

Limiting screen time

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/30/2019

How do you make sure that your children are not spending too much time with their gadgets? This is the question that a mother asked me while I was waiting for my daughter to emerge from a…

Do you worry about money?

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 11/09/2019

“Do you worry about money, Mom?”  This is the question that my six-year-old son asked me on a Friday morning while I was halfway between sleep and consciousness.  The boy just entered the master’s bedroom after three…

Unidentified foreign object

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/26/2019

I’ve never been to a tour around Cebu City since I was in kindergarten back in 1991. Back then, my entire class was taken to the Cebu City Zoo for a field trip. I felt very special…

Water and trees

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 10/19/2019

There was a special smell in the air that day much like the sweet aroma of pine trees in Baguio City that I used to imagine to see in person while watching movies on television. It was…

Door to Narnia 

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/12/2019

It was exam week so the Ruffolo home in Liloan, Cebu was a frantic mess of pad papers, dog-eared textbooks and unwashed lunch boxes.  Mornings are all about sending the six-year-old twins out the door before 6:20…

Gift of each other

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 09/14/2019

“Do you become wealthy when you are a journalist?” asked the Grade 7 student from a private school who visited the newsroom along with 30 other campus journalists on a Friday afternoon. “It depends on how you…

My Benedictine story

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 09/07/2019

You won’t believe it. But there was a time in my teenage years that I wanted to be a nun. I was influenced by two Benedictine sisters: Sister Mary John Mananzan and Sister Alexis Remoroza. I started…

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