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On this day, we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, and our 21st as a couple. Many moons ago, we celebrated monthsaries, because the relationship was so new to us. We even did it twice a month - one for when we actually got together, and another when we made our...

I met up with an old friend today, but it wasn’t the only highlight of this day. I dropped off Vino at school and headed to Vivo, where I was to meet Shaun, a friend of mine from grade school. When we moved to our current home in the Philippines in 1991, I enrolled in...

This day turned out to be what a typical day looks like for me. Lunch was pretty easy today, as we still had leftover food from last night that I just need to heat up for Vino. For breakfast, I cooked some chicken nuggets. We got ready just in time, and we said our...

I got the opportunity to cook for Che and her officemates today, which was a fun experience. I’ve come to love cooking for people. It has become a way for me to express myself through taste. After learning how to discern flavors and fragrances from my corporate work,...

I love kids, especially my kid, but I don’t think I have the patience to be a teacher. Vino is at an age where I can still teach him some things in school, so I’m trying to make a habit of taking some time in the afternoon to work on some academics. It’s not exactly...

I was set to meet my cousin this day, so it was going to be a morning of preparations. Vino broke his streak of waking up by himself early as he snuggled with Che in bed for an extra few minutes. I sat with him through breakfast, and since it was going to be the first...