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The unexpected joys of traveling with grown-up children
Confession: I didn’t like going on vacations all that much when my children were younger. Yeah, sure, we were making core memories, but do those moments have to be so damn exhausting?! Mwahahaha I’m a single parent, which meant I had to do the work of two persons to make those core memories happen. But…
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Why volunteer work is good for you
A recent work trip found me passing through the town of Aborlan in Palawan. I have very fond memories of Aborlan. It was at Aborlan that I had my first taste of marang. It was also at Aborlan that I started smiling once again. It was July 2019. My father had passed away a few…
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My exciting introduction to EDSA Carousel
I confess. I didn’t know anything about the EDSA Bus Carousel before my inexplicable urge to try riding it. Because I went to college up north, I grew up traversing EDSA. On Mondays, Dad would speed through the highway from Makati, managing to get me to Katipunan in less than an hour. When I started…
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How to pose in a swimsuit in your fifties if you’re not Paulina Porizkova
Of course, there is only one Paulina Porizkova but this doesn’t mean the rest of us have to look all sloppy either. Picking the right swimsuit is half the battle. The fifty-year-old body is not like the forty-year-old’s. We’ve got some mileage on us, and we should be proud of it whether it’s because we’ve…
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Why it’s good to get off the grid
We may have been locked up in our homes for months on end, but it didn’t shield us from everything that’s been happening around the world. If anything, the lockdown served to make us more aware, and if I may say more hyper-aware, of current events. In fact, we’re so current we knew that an…
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