From the monthly archives:
My husband and kids are all packed. I’m just finishing my column for Thursday, Nov. 2, before doing my own packing. We’re supposed to leave tomorrow for a 3-day much-needed R&R vacation. Now, this:
The Department of the Interior and Local Government Sunday advised travelers planning their yearly All Saints Day trek to the provinces to [...]
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My husband just came home from a three-day trip in Quezon. He brought me a huge bunch of mums with the longest stems I’ve ever seen. No wonder, he picked the flowers themselves at this chrysanthemem farm in Tayabas.
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I saw its ad on TV and I promised myself I’d check out the website of a project against online child pornography.
The innocent victims of Internet child abuse cannot speak for themselves.
But you can.
With your help, we can eradicate this evil trade.
We do not need your money.
We need you to light [...]
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Every now and then, we talk about the possibility of buying a new house. We haven’t gotten to the final-decision-point though–it’s just a kind of on-and-off open discussion in the family. One time, my 14-year-old daughter, Sam, saw me poring over some house plans. She sat on the bed and said, “Mommy, when we build [...]
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Take away the religious connotations and marriage is really just a piece of paper. It is a form; the relationship is the substance. So it really shouldn’t be shocking to read about women who think that marriage, as we know it, is outmoded. Human relationships will stay but just how important the formality of such [...]
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Comments posted between October 13 and today are kinda floating somewhere on the web. Everything’s being done to retrieve them. Never mind what happened. Long and sad story. If you happen to see them around, I’d appreciate a holler or something. Something tells me it’s gonna be a loooong night.
I really need a vacation. Now, [...]
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If the results of a recent study are to be believed, men may be better off sending and receiving SMS, MMS and e-mails with the cell phones rather than making and receiving voice calls.
Men who are heavy users of mobile phones have significantly lower sperm counts than usual, according to new research that suggests radiation [...]
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Philippines has the longest Christmas season in the world. The beginning of the first month that ends with ber–September–is the sign that Christmas is “near”. Of course, the onset of the Christmas spirit is “helped along” by commercial establishments which don’t seem to find anything strange about [...]
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