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Why I shaved my head
We had it so good, we just didn’t know it! As I write this, I am staring at my feet, wondering when they’d be soaked in a warm bath of salts and massaged into softness, cuticles stripped, dead skin scrubbed away. The salon has always been my choice for self-care. Every few weeks or so,…
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53 things I am grateful for
There are many other places where I thought I’d be on my 53th birthday last September. Never did I imagine though that I’d be spending it at home, munching on dumplings and broccoli, watching Crash Landing on You for the umpteenth time. But hey, it’s not that bad. It could have been so much worse,…
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What I learned from my adventures as an accidental gardener
My love affair with gardening started by accident. It began with a handful of papaya seeds which I threw into a pot of pomelo in the middle of the hard lockdown. As a hypertensive patient, papaya is one of the fruits I eat with regularity and I thought nothing of throwing seeds onto soil. A…
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Why I’m a sucker for silly love songs
Show me your smile and then kiss me Tell me you love me again Come to my room and then lie in my bed I love you, you know although sometimes It just doesn’t show When I’m feeling down in the dumps, I tap into my feel-good playlist, a selection of lovey-dovey, downright mushy ditties…
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Why I jumped off a cliff
One of the more memorable adventures I had as an editor of a domestic travel magazine was going on a river trek in Mapawa Nature Park in Cagayan de Oro. Here’s how I began the story… “By the time I reached the edge of the cliff, I was tired, hungry, and thirsty. Beyond the rocky…
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