Five years ago, I blogged about the 24/7 noise inside my ears—tinnitus—a symptom that my hearing was slowly leaving me. The noise is still there. Whether...
Being a principal sponsor or witness (ninang) in a wedding is, for me, a big responsibility. I take it seriously especially because the pastor usually asks...
Long ago, when I was a starving art student in Chicago, my small circle of Filipino friends, all faith brethren, and I would treat ourselves to...
The bruising presidential campaign/election in the country has left the electorate black and blue. Sensibilities, personalities, ideologies, and especially egos have been savagely smashed, leaving a...
If I were to reduce to numbers our one-month stay in America from mid-March to mid-April this year, they would be: Nine airplanes, nine cities, seven...
Spring in America for tropical beings like my husband and me was winter weather. It was so unbearably brrr, every one of our hosts turned the...
It was definitely going to be a beautiful day in New York, never mind the weather forecast of unbearably cold 30 degrees and rain showers. My...
My friend Lucy facetiously says that Tony and I are on the run. In a way we are: Four major US cities in one month, not...
Making decisions in America is a mind-boggling, brain-twisting, and synapse-altering experience. We go into a burger shop and reading the menu alone makes me go insane....
“Cupertino? Where is that?” people asked when I told them I’d be going there to visit my older brother. Even if it is a big chunk...
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