Lowering the bar
I resolved to keep my sanity and my fingernails from cracking the whole month: Lanie, my lone kasambahay, would be away on vacation. I lived five years in the States,
I resolved to keep my sanity and my fingernails from cracking the whole month: Lanie, my lone kasambahay, would be away on vacation. I lived five years in the States,
No hay mal que por bien no venga.” Roughly translated: There is nothing bad, from which good cannot result. It’s a Spanish saying I heard from my paternal grandparents, growing
The old year is almost over. A new decade is about to begin. In early February I should be over the supposed jinx age of 79, safe and secure as
I’ve been wondering: What do you do with your bonus years—the years beyond age 80, when every day after that constitutes a milestone? When and how do you, for instance,
There’s so much upsetting news these days, I don’t know if I can get any angrier. The biggest and most important has to be the Chinese invasion in all sorts
The first time I went to Dr. Higino Laureta for a medical reason, I already knew him. I had been friends with his wife, Nancy, and my husband at the time was a colleague and golf buddy of his. He was frugal with everything, including his time; he had no patience for ignorance and stupidity.
Just when it was feeling so right to be flying back home, my husband nudged me to divert my eyes from the movie I was watching, to the immigration form for foreign arrivals.
It’s only 10 days,” I had to constantly remind myself. But, with the kind of preparation I did for this cruise, one could conclude it might be longer, or probably our last, before we give away our suitcases.
I heard the first siren, almost as soon as kasambahay Lanie left for the grocery.
After almost 10 years, we decided to sell our car. But we didn’t put it on the market until we had cleared our newly sold house of things we didn’t yet know what to do with and had hauled and put them in rented storage. The car, an Innova, with seats that folded away, had proved to its last days a good conveyor of both people and things.
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