Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
Antoinette was flipping through her copy of The Alphabet Book by P.D. Eastman when a woman approached us and asked me if I don’t mind her taking a photo of my daughter. This happened at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Terminal 3 in Manila, Philippines. I am no stranger …
Jeff earlier wrote about Nicholas’ response (sleeping a lot!) to the weeklong twin separation that transpired in early February. Nicholas is the sweetest little boy in the world, a huge Mama’s boy and a rampaging hippo with an insatiable appetite for food. His chubby cheeks are as red as the …
One morning, Nicholas was on Jeff’s lap – a Daddy-son thing that they do any time of the day. The doting father wanted to play some classical music on his laptop and have Nicholas listen to it with him. He loves this Utah-based radio station and would play it all …
A lot of people asked me how I manage to live each day with two active toddlers in the house. It is tempting to say that everything is great – that I manage them very well while beating deadlines for my part-time jobs and writing term papers for my Master’s …
Today, let’s talk about Eric Carle. Eric Carle is an American writter and illustrator of children’s books who is best known for his masterpiece, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. He is now 85 years old. He and his wife, Bobbie opened ‘The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art’ in Amherst, Massachusetts. You …
Here is an article I wrote for Cebu Daily News (published on February 27, 2014) about my battle against postpartum depression and how I came out of it. I am not particularly proud of that episode in my life but I wrote about it to tell women and mothers out …
This entry was written on a journal on November 27, 2014 in Hong Kong Disneyland. I used to write a lot. By writing, I mean using a ballpen and a notebook to record my feelings, experiences, adventures. I used to seek refuge in the paper and the ink when nobody …
This is a post I wrote in one of our group discussions in my Foundations in Reading and Literacy class last December 2014. For this discussion forum, I am sharing two recent experiences: (1) comments from a Facebook photo I posted last Tuesday; and (2) learnings from the book “7 …
Forgive me if I have been talking incessantly about school – and the pressures that come with it – these days. Because really, it’s really tough. If I come face to face with my 17-year-old self today, I’m going to slap her for complaining about how tough college is. I’m …
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
