Relationships

Do you love me?

I have a revelation to make.
My husband was not my first boyfriend. Oh well - that is not surprising, I know. In fact it is as ordinary as ordinary and normal as normal - at least - based on today’s standards.
However, our case was quite different. I was currently engaged when he wooed me. My […]

The truly married woman

  
Each morning for 12 years, Ayo never failed to have Ayayi’s cup of tea ready beside at his bedside. She would get up early, careful not to wake the man soundly sleeping beside her.
Upon rising, Ayayi was sure to find beside him his hot tea “just as he liked it - weak and sugary, without milk”. 
Then […]

Family heirloom

GEM one time kept bugging me about our family heirloom. “Where is it, Mama? Do we have one?”
Embarrassed because I knew there was none, I just told her: “Search for it.” (Very safe answer, huh.)
She knows I am not keeping any jewelry box because I am not fond of jewelry. So instead of searching in […]

Thank you, Tita Carmen!

“Rhoda, why aren’t you allowing Gem to come with us to watch Insiang at CCP?”
There’s no mistaking. The voice on the other end belongs to Carmen ‘Baby’ Prieto.
When she called, I had just finished talking to Gem, and told her - no, she couldn’t go with Tita Carmen, Paul and Tetris to CCP. My reason […]

To infinity and beyond! (reposted)

I am missing my daughter so. She is now in Caliraya, Laguna for a week long national convention of the Filipino Chinese Catholic Youth parish group.
I am not used to not having her around. For most of you who read my blog regularly, you may have noticed how much I dote on my daughter. I […]

Letting the fish go

One, two, three, four, five
Once I caught a fish alive
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Then I let it go again.
Why did I let it go?
Because it bit my finger so
Which finger did it bite?
The little finger on the right…
I don’t know why, but I’ve been humming this Nursery tune the whole morning… LOL! Well, we don’t […]

My taste of Philippine politics

Speaker Jose C. De Venecia, Jr. raising the hand of my husband to endorse his candidacy in the local elections some years back
Every time I see on television celebrities like Sharon Cuneta and Lucy Torres Gomez endorsing their spouses for the coming May elections, I can’t help but recall the time when […]

The Prodigal Son

I still owe my middle child one more entry that is supposed to be posted today. However, just arriving from church today, I felt the urge to first share with you the following reflections (written by Fr. Apolinar A. Castor, Jr. , SSP), which I lifted from the “Sambuhay” missalette, prepared by the Pastoral Ministry […]

Middle child syndrome (2)

Here he is now, my middle child, Aypee, already 22 years old, fourth year Nursing student.

Aypee takes a break from doing the rounds at Philippine Veterans Hospital during his affiliation in said hospital last October.
He learned how to single bike at three years old. He would be wheeling around the yard, sometimes with his hands […]

Middle child syndrome

Aypee. My second child, the middle child in the family. I have not written much about him. In fact, the only time I wrote about him in my blog was when he got sick and was hospitalized with amoebiasis, and when I greeted him on his birthday.  My entries that revolved on my children were […]