March 6, 2020 We picked up from Daly City our friends, the mother-and-son / best friends / travel buddies / partners in crime tandem, Det de Leon and Loel de
I offered food basket instead of the traditional eggs to Santa Clara in the afternoon of February 25, 2020. I prayed for sunshine– on this coming Saturday and most especially
The groom’s parents and sister flew in last Sunday from Manila. We invited them over for a simple lunch on Tuesday March 10, 2020. There were only 3 of them.
March 2, 2020 I came from Sally’s when I noticed some colorful dresses hanging outside the store next door. I stopped to look. The colors were so vibrant and happy.
Edmund and I drove for a little over an hour to the hotel we’re staying at in Sonoma, CA for the next 5 days. We arrived at 4:14 and as
I was teasing Edmund that he is now hi-tech, pa-tele-tele-conference na sya ngayon. We need to give clear instructions and directions to the managers of Makati Ford, Ford EDSA, and
I haven’t been sleeping well in the past two weeks. There were nights I stayed awake until 6 am. My mind just keeps on wandering and wandering. I am a
March 11, 2020 9 pmWe were not panicking but I suggested to Edmund that maybe we should buy some extra food just in case. There were no more toilet papers
Punas here punas there, hugas here hugas there. This is what the coronavirus scare has brought us and made us, OCDs. We are now clean freaks. Germophobic. Mysophobic. Dumibics.
I was so occupied I almost forgot it was my mother’s birthday. I wasn’t able to visit her at the cemetery. My sister brought her flowers last Saturday. Although I wasn’t
My sister and brother in law helped us tie ribbons around the shawls. I bought 150 or 170 pieces of plain blue shawls to give away to guests just in
I had several months to prepare as the mother of the B but I wasted those months. I knew mothers who had a year of intense dieting, beauty treatments, some
Towards the end of 2019, economic doomsayers were predicting a recession in the US would happen in 2020 but the US economic fundamentals remained strong. UNTIL the coronavirus came. Recession
My daughter scolded me after she found out that the whole world knew about the wedding preparations. Sino pa ba ang tsismosa eh di nanay nya! I was already showing
I possess three Ms (ems). A long time ago when my parents were still alive, there were $1 white towels sold in JC Penny department stores. These white towels were
I was in the grocery store when I noticed a Mexican guy pushing a cart full of hotdog buns and two giant bottles of catsup. I asked him why he