If there is one topic that I think we try to avoid, it is death. When Daddy passed away in 2021, it taught me many things about love, living, grief, forgiveness, healing, letting go, slowing down and many other things that we would normally take for granted. Things that we set aside for later days….
Category: memoir
God’s Given Days
A few days ago, yours truly turned another year older and wiser…I would say. There is something about birthdays that makes me extra grateful than what I already am. It’s in knowing that I have another year to add to my memoirs. Days and weeks and months of waking up to a new day, of…
as We forgive
It’s 1:30 a.m. I can’t count how many times or how long has it been since I would wake up around midnight or a little later and toss and turn trying my best to fall back to sleep. Every time when this happens, I would – most of the times – just lay still and…
Something in the Rain
It’s a rainy (gloomy in a way) Friday. More often than not, rainy days always make me feel gloomy. It’s weather for staying home. And I am at work, so… But today, I find the rain to be a relief. I find it calming and beautiful. And the sound of it is like music to…
What’s Your Story?
The beginning is always today… Forget the fear of blank pages, every new day is an open book waiting to be filled with all kinds of narratives. Why not be the bold author of your own book? If you can write your own story, how would you like it to start and end? Today is…
{Make Time}
My love for Korean dramas started after watching “Crash Landing On You”. A show recommended by my daughter. I can’t actually count how many KDramas I’ve seen after that. Today, I finished Navillera. The story is about a young man, an aspiring ballerino and a 70 year old man whose childhood dream was to learn…
Who Are You?
It’s 3 a.m. (3:12 to be exact). And just like as always, I try to make myself fall back to sleep by scrolling through my social media account. Sometimes it works, at other times it doesn’t. While I was scrolling, I saw this article about motherhood. That of being a stay at home mother. The…
What Happentance?
: a circumstance especially that is due to chance: I am fifty years old. At my age, I still watch teenybopper movies like “What A Girl Wants” to some serious and hopelessly romantic movies like “The Notebook,” “Nights in Rodanthe” and “The Best of Me” just to give you an idea. You can say, I…
Which Side Are You?
Has it ever occurred in your life where you asked yourself if you are on the wrong side of the fence? Just a few hours ago, I had this dream. In my dream, I was still in school. In a particular class, there were a few of us that were not chosen to be included…
Charina.Writes 