Every week, after my husband reads my column, he asks me the same question: “When are you going to change your column picture?” He then talks about putting a more “recent” shot of our son, Juanmi. Now this “recent” bit really puzzles me, because when I look at the photo, I don’t see any difference between how he looks in it and how he looks in real life.
Once again, another Christmas has passed and a new year beckons. How could 2012 have gone by so quickly?
They say death or bad news comes in threes. Lately I’ve been inclined to believe this, as there have been too many untoward incidents occurring in the country. Sometimes I wonder if there has always been this much violence and death around us—or has respect for life and humanity reached a new record low?
About a month or two ago, I was in the bookstore browsing when a book cover caught my eye. I...
Don’t laugh, but many years ago when I was still in high school, when I first heard the term “postpartum depression” or PPD, I thought it was a form of depression that some women experienced after giving birth because they missed being pregnant!
It’s amazing how quickly sweet and innocent babies can turn into pint-size experts in getting what they want. Some are subtle and can get what they want without parents even noticing; while others, well, you don’t need articles to tell you that they’re spoiled. You just know.
For a while now, I’ve been hearing from two of my kids, aged 8 and 7, respectively, certain questions about bad words.
Nowadays, there are so many pressing issues in our country, such that the importance of families is overlooked. But as Pope John Paul II said, as quoted by Jollibee Foundation president Grace Tan Caktiong, “As family goes, so goes the nation. As nations goes, so goes the world in which we live all.”
It’s 2017 and I’m not talking about the beginning, but being halfway through the first month—even as some people are still sending Christmas gifts belatedly.
Do you remember that biblical story of the two mothers and King Solomon? It’s about two women who went to sleep with their respective newborns. In the morning, one baby is found lifeless and the two mothers proceed to claim the one who is alive as their own.
