At a gathering the other day, a well-respected member of our community was asked to speak. Aside from the many nuggets of wisdom he shared, he spoke about things that annoy him, and why they do.
When should the past stay in the past? What if the past keeps popping in the present? How do you deal with it?
“Words unlock worlds.” The small note, scribbled in beautiful script by a girl named Alessandra Yu on June 28, 2014, was tacked on a board in a nook inside the Shakespeare and Company Bookshop, on Paris’ Left Bank. It leapt at me through a photograph taken by a friend who was in Paris this week. The romance of literature, and the Left Bank, immortalized in scraps of paper written by visitors from all over the world.
I am in my late 30s, a successful woman, married but not blessed with kids.
Paquito “Pen” Roque, a bachelor, considers himself the father of 16 children.
Jing Monis, the A-Listers’ style icon of hair and makeup, was an 18-year-old marketing major doing events promotion on the side when he sired a boy.
Lawyer and ex-academician Adel Tamano wants families with special children to spur a change in society’s attitudes so that greater nurturing and protection are given these children, and weaken the stigma that comes with having them.
Javier Berenguer-Testa smiled as he admitted he is the kunsintidor while wife Lexi (née Schultz) is the disciplinarian in raising their two daughters, ages 8 and 3.
One of my father’s traits that I really admire is his passion for excellence. As a singer-songwriter and performer, he won’t stop till he gets everything perfectly right. It’s inspiring that there’s someone like him in the music industry, which tends to suffer from mediocrity nowadays.—Kiana Valenciano, daughter of pop star Gary Valenciano
The first thing Jeroen Van Straten noticed about his newly arrived foster child was how the boy, then barely 2 years old, would pick up rice grains that dropped out of his plate and pop these into his mouth while at the dinner table.
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