I’m at a parents’ orientation for Daniel’s SPED school and I love this song because it reminds me of how, in my preschool, we learned …
Embrace
(mis)Adventures
It’s the 37th EDSA People Power Anniversary today, and instead of being at Bantayog, I’m at home. A week ago Daniel had his third seizure, …
Electrical Storm
So this is January. We were caught blindsided by Daniel’s sudden seizure the week after our family reunion in NV, but perhaps we just refused …
The dream gauge and a Friday
Sometimes my brain responds in fun ways to meds or dose changes (see: that time I took allergy meds and had a really lucid dream). …
The little one stops to climb a tree
I’m indoors with the children in the middle of tropical storm Paeng (Nalgae). Here in Metro Manila it’s just hours and hours of nonstop rain, …
“Let’s drink beer and put on facial masks”
(said the great sage Xiumin… who is finally getting a solo in September!) A few nights ago, our house-mice ate the potato chips I had …
A Stranger Listens: “I would like to waste nothing.”
January 24, 11 PM, the first of a series of posts from listening to strangers. She said: I am not happy, but I can’t help …
We are made of dreams and bones
The house had been silent for weeks on end before Amy’s reading class watched The Garden Song yesterday. Suddenly it was as if a musical …
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 / …
Privilege, protests, and the case for “kapwa”
Let me get this out of the way first: Jia Tolentino is undeniably a prophet of our age (well, to me). I had been following …