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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 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 I reinvented myself as a farmer
A decade or so ago, I bundled up my brood and went to Tarlac. Our destination: a house on top of a hill with my good friend Myra Salvosa’s arms wide open in welcome. While the kids went swimming and chasing after farm animals, us adults breathed in the fresh air, stared out to the…
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Why are we so tired?
In the movie Palm Springs, Sarah and Nyles are stuck in a time loop, re-living the same day over and over again. Because they wake up in the same day anyway, whether or not they get killed the 24 hours before, they decide to have a little bit of fun. Nyles has sex with random…
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How it’s like to be a teacher in the midst of the pandemic
I’ve always admired teachers. As a young mom, I tried tutoring my kids. I failed. I wasn’t patient enough, and my kids knew how to push my buttons. It was a disaster. The heroes of my younger years were mostly teachers. Soledad Reyes, who unboxed for me the nuts and bolts of writing English, easily…
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