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I am a Filipina in the diaspora, born in the heady sixties, raised during the repressive Marcos regime, this blog is about living and loving in the belly of the beast.

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  • Faculty Development

    (Wrote this little poem in honor of faculty development week. Yeah right. Enjoy ;-)!!!!) And when one faculty is developed, What happens to the rest? Do they whither and crack like dry hay Turn into tumbleweeds Quietly roll in the wind, cross paths with Ghosts of cowboys killed in shoot outs Or accidentally hit in Read more

  • The village, not the state

    It takes a village to raise a child, or so the cliche goes. And I believe this saying with all my heart, using it unsparingly to remind teachers, principals, and camp counselors that kicking a child out for misbehaving is not in the child’s best interest. It has worked for the most part. But when Read more

  • Kuto!!!!

    I had a feeling he had them when I saw his hair — so dry and mangy, like he hadn’t washed it in days.  We had told him to shampoo his hair, then so beautiful and wavy, like Luis’s was when he was his age. He said he did. “I did,” he would automatically retort Read more