I left my cushy job after more than 16 years there. I started as a wide-eyed Associate Publisher of a magazine company, so thrilled to be meeting Myrza Sison, Cosmopolitan Philippines editor-in-chief and working in the job of my dreams. I loved magazines and I remember how, during sleepovers at my friends’, I would wake […]
And now we shift our attention to joy, after yesterday’s post on grief and endings. Here are five ways to infuse your life with joy today.
May. The month of many beginnings and endings for me. The month I started my first job, got engaged, moved into the home where I currently live. These were beautiful moments that make my heart full when I remember. May. The month my mom passed away (it’s actually the fourth anniversary of her death today) […]
Dear Aurora, So I made a commitment to doing 10 April Love posts last month. It’s the first day of May and only got to complete this last love letter today. In the past, I would have felt really bad about not living up to my commitments and beating myself up about how I could have […]
Dear change, You’ve been unrelenting these past few years. I barely recognize my life because it looks so different from what I had planned. I was the one who went the same grade school and high school with the same 30 classmates for 11 years. I lived in the house I grew up in for […]
Dear heart, You amaze me with your courage. Your resilience. Your ability to grow. Your openness. Your passion. Your intensity. Your tenderness. Your kindness. Your love. Thank you for being mine. I haven’t always taken care of you in the past but now I’m trying to listen more to you, to make choices that are […]
