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She went on the anniversary of martial law to make doubly sure I don’t forget.
In a few days it would be Christmas and I believe that the occasion is really for children and the child within us.
I am turning 82, and I thought I should be truthful and update my column head. My friend, Robert Alejandro, once thought it a good idea to open a Facebook or Fan Page or whatever you call it, for his old computer-illiterate friend. I haven’t stopped blaming him. Lately I even learned that one grandchild has been answering that Facebook for me! Dreadful!
DO YOU believe that even if retired from work, you can still be an active force in making the world a better place?
This was one special week for me. Finally, after two years and four months of writing and research, we unveiled a 4½-kilogram tome (“Razon”), heavy with memories and little-known information and details about our family’s history.
Seniors Of long-enough standing, like me, now flash our cards as a badge of privilege to seize every chance at a 20-percent discount. Indeed, our increasingly aggressive pursuit of our claims to hard-earned benefits has gained us more and more of them.
Lately I find myself relying more and more on Lani’s memory than my own. Lani has been our lone kasambahay for nearly a decade now. If I depended on her before owing merely to laziness, I’m a long way from that now. It all beganquite innocently—but of course.
Quality time! There is no better way to get it than on a road trip. For me it was a three-hour drive from Lake Worth to Orlando, with my youngest daughter at the wheel of her trusty Honda.
The recent headlines on cyber pornography in our country are alarming. The numbers on child cybersex are frightening, and figures on human trafficking have soared almost exponentially.
If Dad had had a say in the matter, he’d not have died on April 10, 2010—or he would not have died at all. As young as 70, he had made it clear to me, his first child, that dying was not in his plans, but that he might be open to the idea by his 80th, the age his brother Tuting, older than him by four years, would himself go.
