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How I’ve become so paranoid
One of my tasks every day except Sunday is to go through the list of Covid-19 cases — those who got sick, those who recovered, those who died. It is a task I don’t take lightly. I review each piece of information carefully and conscientiously, watching out for errors and inconsistencies. When I miss out…
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Where I’m taking a mental vacation
Sometime January, we were very fortunate to have escaped from quarantine to a house on a hill, somewhere in Batangas. This was when quarantine rules were relaxed a bit, and hotels and resorts started opening one by one. Because I was too paranoid to book a room in a hotel, I turned to AirBnB where…
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How online communities are caring for our mental health
How many online groups are you a part of? Don’t be shy. At the height of the hard lockdown last year, I belonged to at least five, one for each of my various interests including cooking and zero-waste living. For most of these communities, I remained a lurker, content to peek at what everybody else…
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How to keep your sanity in another prolonged lockdown
Whether it’s called lockdown, community quarantine, circuit breaker, or some other term designed to keep us eternally confused, the more fortunate of us are very likely going to be staying in our homes for the next few months or so. The current situation seems particularly dire, bringing us back to where we were at the…
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How it’s like to be on a roller coaster ride to menopause
It was the first time I was to do a Facebook Live, for my blogger friend Earth, and I didn’t know what to expect. I wasn’t so worried though because the topic was something very close to my heart, menopause. Ah, menopause, that dreaded phase in a woman’s life marked by moods swinging, temperatures rising,…
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