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…

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…

Shared responsibility

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/23/2019

The issue involving teacher Melita Limjuco, whose disciplinary action to her pupil allegedly traumatised the child, hit me on three fronts: as a journalist, as a mother and as a teacher. A media personality is in the…

Nanay Says: Mr. John

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/16/2019

We were eagerly waiting for them to arrive inside one of the classrooms of Fudan University in Shanghai, China.  It was not the first time for us, scholars of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) China Scholarship Program,…

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…

This climb for Malu

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/02/2019

BUKIDNON – – The acrid smell of disappointment filled the air when the coordinator officially announced that all six trails leading to the Mount Apo National Park are closed.  The final decision came after a magnitude 6.5…

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…

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…

Reading adventure

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/31/2019

August ends today as if it never started.  It looks like the world is in a hurry to get to the ‘ber’ months. Tomorrow, September 1, Christmas “begins” in the Philippines.  At home, the letters for Santa…

Reverie at 33

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 08/17/2019

When my siblings and I saw the rice fields of Barangay San Juan, Ormoc City, we cheered with the passion and noise similar to football fans when their team scores a goal. It was our first time…

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