Tag Archives: love
Advice from a Horoscope
While you may want to take care of vulnerable individuals, don’t encourage total dependency. Explain that you can help, but you also must keep an eye on other areas your deeply committed to. Lucky day the 20th a Suprise message … Continue reading
Home Repairs
I think our family house in the Philippines is angry at me. Tiles break, pipes burst, roof leaks. I may have hurt its feelings years ago when I told my mother to sell it because I was not going to … Continue reading
Never Too Late for Self-Love
For most of my life, I feared that I was never doing enough, never good enough, never skinny enough. This surprises people who know me as a strong, positive woman, a generous teacher and mother of two sons. Alas, it … Continue reading
Together Nonetheless
Plenty of parents don’t like their children. It’s less often discussed than children not liking their parents. But I know, firsthand, how it feels not to be liked by a parent. My mother made it clear. In her eyes, I … Continue reading
Married in Spirit
I met him in Queens outside a bodega. I had a plane to catch and was looking for someone to bless with my subway pass. Chris thanked me with a 99-cent bottle of vodka. Recently 50, I felt like a … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 