The twins are awake from their morning nap. That means I have 15 minutes to write this entry – to beat my deadline – before they start screaming and by the time they do that deafening duet, my train of thought will go haywire and will refuse to function. So …
I was a full-time news reporter at 20 – straight from college graduation – and I was of the belief that no other galaxy within my universe can be as fast-paced as the media. Not to mention the amount of pressures and bumps one encounters along the road in the …
Jeff pulled a copy of the “Castles of Bavaria, Germany” this morning. I am not sure what got into him but in the twins’ room where we camped out at 6:00 a.m., he started flipping through its pages, which immediately, grabbed Nicholas’ attention. “That’s Neuschwanstein castle. Mom and I went …
Suddenly, it’s April 13. Times flies and it flies faster when you have children. I am disoriented with news from back home (Philippines) although I do know that the Supreme Court unanimously declared that the Reproductive Health Law is constitutional but voted to strike down some eight provisions. We don’t have The …
Are you familiar with the 300-word writing challenge? I was close to joining it last night, but I was really not sure if I can do 300 words every single day. I am an extremist when it comes to writing- either I write short (meaning one or two lines consisting …
Are you familiar with the 300-word writing challenge? I was close to joining it last night, but I was really not sure if I can do 300 words every single day. I am an extremist when it comes to writing- either I write short (meaning one or two lines consisting …
Let me tell you something about the Basadours’ World Read Aloud Day Celebration last March 5, 2014. So it was March 2 (a Sunday) and I was just doing my usual reading when I suddenly realized that March 5 (a Wednesday) is World Read Aloud Day BUT… we forgot to …
Back in the Philippines sometime February 2014, I attended a parenting talk and the speaker, Maribel Sision-Dionisio, said that active parenting years is only 10 years (that’s from 0 to 10 years old). This means that you get to spend time with your kids in these 10 years without or …
I will be lying if I say that things have been very smooth here in Guangzhou – in managing a house with twins, that is. The twins were screaming when they got here and I was beyond tired for three straight days having stubbornly refused my husband’s insistence in hiring …
This movie review of ’12 Years a Slave’ was published on March 7, 2014 in Cebu Daily News. *** Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive …
