Stress is a condition that can make us sick, afflicting us even in our sleep. If we don’t take steps to manage it, stress can drive us crazy.
How many times did I find myself doing just that this past year? I’m writing this a little over a week since the ushering of the brand new year. How quickly 2014 went! It felt like this most eventful year just zipped by. And now, again, the hours in each day just seem to be flying by.
Except for the “open-air” arrivals area and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) tents that line the road from the airport to the city, there seems to be no indication that this city had been ravaged seven months earlier. Life has slowly returned to Tacloban.
I like being emotionally ready for life’s major transitions.
My mother was my first best friend. As a young girl, she would indulge me, and between us there were no secrets. We had an unusual kind of relationship; I could tell her anything, but I also knew that I could not overstep my boundaries.
As a young girl in elementary school at Maryknoll (now Miriam College), we were given little “blue books” which portrayed Ecclesiastes 3, the passage “A time for everything,” in photographs. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” the passage began.
Humor seems to be the hallmark of the Boots Anson-Roa and King Rodrigo union. The two senior...
GOD speaks through the movies, of this I’m now sure.
Depression wears many faces. It isn’t always the stereotype of gloom and doom.
