June 2006

What are fathers made of?

Last Sunday, June 18 was Fathers’ Day. The text joke most circulated on this day was: “Fathers’ Day ngayon, oras naman ng pahinga para sa mga papa. Pahinga sa paglalaba, paglilinis ng bahay, pamamalantsa, pagluluto…” (It’s Fathers’ Day today, so it is time for dads to take a rest. Rest from the laundry, house cleaning, ironing and […]

Back to usual grind

Well, now that my daughter is home from her US trip, (May 17-June 10) things are now back to normal.
I am not used to being away from my daughter. True, she sometimes joins her classmates at sleep overs and has gone for a week sojourn in Cebu and Bohol the other summer for a national convention of the […]