Romance of bookstores
My friend, says his wife, can smell a Zegna store from blocks away. I smell bookshops.
September 15, 2013
My friend, says his wife, can smell a Zegna store from blocks away. I smell bookshops.
One Direction star Harry Styles was in the front row at the House of Holland catwalk show on Saturday as the British label injected some Latin heat and attitude into London Fashion Week.
Harbor Square at the CCP complex is an ideal place to have dinner and a few drinks before watching the Circus Band-New Minstrels gig on Sept. 20 at the PICC.
‘Why don’t you write about Napoles’ lifestyle friends?” our managing editor’s (ME) voice boomed from across the divider all the way to me.
I am a 54-year-old working wife with two daughters, ages 21 and 14. My husband is an engineer who travels during the week but never on weekends. Lately, however, his work has included weekends; he says the other parties involved are only available then.
Around the time when “Charlie’s Angels” was still a TV series and not yet a movie, there was another popular sitcom called “Golden Girls.” It was a funny show about women in their 50s living in Florida. When I used to watch it, I thought the “Golden Girls” looked really old and ancient!
When I gave birth to my first son in 1953, my mother and her sisters were elated. My aunt brought a bilao of special pansit to my room at Doctors’ Hospital. My mother and her siblings opened it over the immaculate bed sheet above my feet and started eating it, happily offering me some at intervals. They never wondered whether I was in pain from my cesarean. I hated it, not because I was, but because it was so tacky.
This Sunday’s Gospel has Christ addressing the Pharisees and scribes about the two parables on forgiveness—The Parable of the Lost Sheep and The Parable of the Lost Coin.
Reading your Facebook post today transported me back in time. Like you, I was 16 when my father died. I won’t even begin to imagine how much more difficult it must be for you now that you have lost both your parents. Yet you carry the pain with much grace and courage.
Dominic Atillo and Maria Lyza Neumann were married in what was one of the most elegant weddings of the season, held at the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod in the Cebu City South Road Properties.
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