It’s almost the end of another month, but this time I can say (and remember!) how much I got done this past month! I’ve published one written piece a day on Twitter and my blog since April 5th (25 articles). I’ve attended my writing group every morning at seven o’clock since March 4th, except weekends, […]

I played the best prank on my second daughter today.  On our way to get her second COVID shot, I told her that it would be an injection to the butt. I don’t know even know how I suddenly came up with this silly idea, but it came out of my mouth right away.  She […]

Do you know what I miss most during this COVID pandemic? I miss sitting at a cafe inside a bookstore. I really miss that. I love the subtle din of people talking, ordering coffee, reading at a table with some books, just enjoying their day with soothing music in the background playing. People in a […]

My face betrays me all the time. It is the opposite of deadpan. Even when I’m asleep, I’m told I have this expression like I’m thinking hard or disapprove of something. I have a sleeping bitch face, I suppose.    Now on Zoom calls, it’s been more challenging for me to hide my emotions, especially the […]

I have four children total, three girls and a boy, the youngest. Before you think that’s too much, just know I did split them into two batches. I didn’t have them all in a row like most moms.  The first two are in their twenties, and the eldest has moved out already. The last two […]

I finally got my COVID vaccination today, the first one.  I was pretty worried that I wasn’t going to get one until months after I’d become eligible, the same as everyone else in California. I thought I would have a tough time finding an appointment for me and my husband but I was able to […]

There are days when I just want to laze about, when I just want to do nothing, or just sit in front of the TV and pick a good show to watch. I haven’t had a day like that in months because I’ve been working on feeling productive at the end of the day and […]

There’s a fear of doing something we don’t want to do simply because it repels us. It borders on dread. Then, there’s a different kind of fear towards something you want to do, but you’re too afraid to try. The latter feels worse, especially when you know you have to do it, or you’re going […]

What does home mean to me?  In all my life, I’ve lived in so many houses in so many places. I was conceived in Hawaii, born in Texas, lived in Haiti, and two islands in the Philippines (speaking two different Filipino languages), stopped over in England for a few months to live with an aunt […]

“Today is the first day of the rest of my life.” This saying was on a plaque on a wall in our house growing up, and I know I read this often enough to take it in. Sometimes, it’s the first line I write in my morning pages, and it gives me this feeling of […]