A Filipina Mom Blogger

I just realized that it’s the first time Butch and I are travelling without the kids. The last time we were by ourselves was our honeymoon twenty-two years ago. Since then, our children have always been the number 1 priority in our lives next to us. We have been planning for a family vacation [...]

Stay-at-home-moms (SAHM) are so lucky these days. Online job and income opportunities such as a virtual assistant, researcher , problogger or web content writer now transforms them to work-at-home moms (WAHM). Moms get to balance family time, work and personal satisfaction. Now what is the main resource that online users need? [...]

“Wasn’t it just yesterday that I held your hand on your first day of school in pre-nursery?”, I kissed Lauren’s cheek on her first day of school. Yes, Lauren is back to school, taking her Masters of Arts in Creative Writing. I hugged her for “good luck” to mark another milestone in her life. [...]

I am disappointed in the lack of balance on how media (and some blogs) are treating Mariannet Amper’s death. Even the Catholic Church, for goodness sake. Today is Mariannet’s burial but our beloved Catholic Church in St. Francis of Assisi Parish Church in Barangay Ma-a is in a dilemma. She might not be [...]

If you read today’s papers, Mariannet Amper, a 12 year old girl from Davao died of suicide out of despair for her family’s impoverished life. Yesterday, Nel, a 14 year old boy climbed a flyover in Iloilo in a suicide attempt apparently fuelled by rugby. A few weeks back, Julie wrote [...]

For news on Mariannet Amper : visit my entries at Suicide, Media and Mariannet Amper and Childhood and Adolescent Suicide Deaths in the Philippines
One of my proudest primetime adventure is speaking in a dialect that I am not fluent in TV or radio interviews. Though raised a Cebuana, my first language has always been [...]

Ever since I could remember, dad often brought me and my siblings to any real estate investment he acquired. Trudging by the tall weeds and mud, I wrinkled my nose and retort “But there is nothing here. No houses. ” Dad would often chuckle and remind me “Think of the future. what will [...]

Life seemed unfair to me before I walked the rocky road of recovery in late 2004. Wallowing in self-pity and hopelessness was a daily routine hoping eventually I’d die soon from my misery. I practiced negativism for almost 4 years until I snapped out of it. It must have been divine [...]