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I was one of those Filipino kids who was born and grew up with really dark brown skin. The technical name for the Filipino brown skin tone is kayumanggi, which I guess is the Tagalog word for the color brown…
It’s 4 am, the taxi is waiting outside. Dad is now loading it with our luggages. He came back with the taxi after he left to find one an hour ago. I’m pretty sure he pulled an all-nighter watching all…
I used to not know what “living in the present moment” meant. If you asked me in my early 20s, I would have been like, “Which present? You mean the present moment where I am worried about my bills? How…
Well, it was only a matter of time before we had to move. We are moving temporarily for work so we didn’t feel it was necessary to go through the home buying process, only to move again to a more…
I’ve spent much of my adult years avoiding the memories of my younger self. There was much pain there. Shame and feelings of unworthiness. Rejection and abandonment. It was easier to stuff those memories down in a box and never…
