Mara Clara

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 04/06/2019

I look back to the days of my early childhood with fondness and nostalgia. Everything was simple then. Our idea of fun was to make “cakes” out of fallen banana shrubs, “cooking oil” from mixing gumamela flower with…

NANAY SAYS: Commuters of the North

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/30/2019

Today is whine Saturday and our topic for today is the horrible traffic situation that begins at the national highway fronting SM Consolacion and goes all the way to Pacific Mall in Mandaue City. If you are…

NANAY SAYS: A sweet goodbye

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 02/23/2019

When Dulce “Mama Bebie” Retulla Gamotan confessed that she left her job to be really present at home as her three sons were growing up, I told myself: “Here’s a woman I could never become; so selfless,…

NANAY SAYS: A time for everything

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 02/16/2019

Children learn even the bad stuff in school. Nicholas, 5, came home one day with an aggressive look on his face. “Mom, I want a toy car. If you do not buy me toy, I will punch…

Chismis

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 02/02/2019

When you want the juiciest tidbits of information, ask the taxi driver, the hairdresser and the manicurista/pedicurista. That role is relegated to the bartenders in countries like the US but here in the Pearl of the Orient…

Mothers we have become

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/12/2017

It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow; and I won’t be in Cebu to celebrate it with Jeff and the mutants: Nicholas Louis, Antoinette Elena and Jeffrey Peter Jr. I’m flying to Manila and then Tokyo as part of the…

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