Blogs
The Sweetness of Pasalubong
By Karen Galarpe On a media trip to Thailand last week, my fellow journalists and I made a beeline for the duty-free shops at the airport with less than an hour left before boarding time. Our agenda: buy homecoming gifts or pasalubong. We bought chocolates, tamarind...
Choosing the Right High School
By Lyra Pore-Villafaña My family has had a number of conversations lately about the best high school for our oldest daughter who’s now in Grade Six. “I want to go to OLMC,” she declared last year. OLMC is an exclusive girls’ school run by the Sisters of Mercy in...
Mommy Moments
By Tina Arceo-Dumlao The realization that I was truly and absolutely responsible for someone else’s life came without warning one quiet morning in 1996, a few days after my son, Miggy, was born. My mother had left that day for work and left me home alone with my two...
Teaching by Doing
By Regina Abuyuan My friend R, who partnered with D and me on this new venture of ours, a pub in Cubao X, has an ingenious solution to the never-ending quest for work-life balance and spending time with his kids even when he’s at work: letting his kid work alongside...
Pursue Your Passion
By Karen Galarpe Over lunch a month ago, one of my officemates confessed to me that he had just tendered his resignation as section editor of our online publication. I was dumbfounded. I didn't see that coming, so I asked, “But why?????” He said he wants to...
Try, Try, and Try Again!
By Mari-An Santos I was recently awarded a scholarship to study abroad. It sounds so simple now, but the road getting there was anything but. After having taught at a university, my eyes were opened to the possibility of pursuing higher education abroad through...
The Search for Balance
By Regina Abuyuan Readers of this blog who are connected with me through Facebook have probably been keeping tabs on the latest adventure of my wonky life. With D and another friend, R, I recently opened a pub in Cubao X. It’s called Fred’s (after D’s...
Separation Anxiety?!
By Catherine Deen Like most first-time parents, my husband and I were extremely protective of our firstborn. During his first three years of life, he slept with us in the master bedroom. From a crib, he graduated to our bed, then later on, to a small fold-out...
Mothering My Mother
By Maridol Ranoa-Bismark Since she retired early this year, my 75-year-old balikbayan mom has been staying with me in the house she helped build with her hard-earned money. The set-up is not as easy as you’d think. She left for the States right after I got married,...