It’s 6AM and I’m supposed to be working on a proposal while it’s still quiet, but Daniel woke up so I’m letting him play with …
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Savasana
Hello, I’m still here. Just catching my breath. I feel like March and April just zipped by, even if it felt like SG was eons …
Room for Hope
It’s been a while. You’d think that with the pandemic pushing two years we’d be almost at the end of it (looking at you, Spanish …
He grants sleep to the one he loves
I awoke at 4 this morning. Daniel slept on soundly beside me, but my thoughts raced each other to nowhere: How do I even start …
Week of the Living Dead
I used to dread Holy Week. My earliest remembrances of it weren’t so bad, when in AIT we held Easter vigil in Village 3 and …
You take the sour with the sweet
I only have a few minutes to write while the baby is napping. Jing left on Valentine’s Day, without a word of explanation. (“It’s too …
Dreams: Pandemic dining, stadium space concert, BTS
I had a series of vivid-bordering-on-lucid dreams recently, which might have been brought on by sudden jolts into consciousness during REM sleep and weird hours’ …
The Mean Reds
It’s been a stormy week, both literally and not: Typhoon Rolly spared Metro Manila, but Ulysses came on its heels and drowned large swathes of …
Little Foxes
Drive-by update: Like Schroedinger’s cat, I’m both okay and not okay. Daniel is gaining weight well, but we’ve been thrown the curveball of rashes and …
Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby’s head*
*Title stolen from one of Bono’s inscrutable lyrics, right up there with “A mole, digging in a hole / Digging up my soul, now / …