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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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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