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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.

  • Vanity

    As it turned out I am more vain and selfish than Angelina Jolie, who had both breasts mastectomized when she found out she has the breast cancer gene. Never mind if her divine bosom showed no sign of cancer. Meanwhile, I insist on keeping the little I have and never mind if my kids lose a Read more

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  • On dying and other concerns after 50

    My brother met his untimely demise June 30. Two days after his wife’s birthday and ten days before his 57th birthday. Not that there is such a thing as a timely demise. I don’t even know where that idiom came from. But in light of all the supposedly joyful days surrounding the day of his Read more

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  • Fostering

    When a child comes to you, you are mistaken to think you have a choice. He has chosen you, the way kitty cats rub their noses against your face while you lay asleep to leave a scent that says, “you are mine.” The way your heart sinks at the sight of a beloved, or swoons Read more

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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