As I sit down to write these words, my heart is heavy with the weight of losing the most important person in my life. On the day we laid my father, Engineer Alfonso T. Navarro Jr., to rest, the outpouring of love, support, and kindness…
Adventures in Spiritual Reset: Battling Energy Vampires with Sarcasm and Resilience
Dive back into my rollercoaster called life, because I’m serving another chaotic, serendipitous, mildly hilarious (or harrowing, depending on how you look at it) episode of my personal journey. A bit of warning: fasten your seatbelts, as this ride is filled with energy vampires, personal…
A Tale of Spiritual Quests, Medical Dramas, and Windshield Wiper Mysteries
Well, wouldn’t you know it? Just when I thought my spiritual journey had hit its final, zen-like plateau, Master G, our spiritual guru at Daily Prana, decided I was due for a spiritual “upgrade”. So, after an almost celestial Saturday spent in meditation review and…
When Inches Matter: A Tale of a Typhoon, A Baby, and the Comedy of Errors Called Healthcare
Well, well, well, another blissful day in our idyllic tropical paradise. You’d think living in the Philippines would be all sunshine, beaches and palm trees, wouldn’t you? But no, Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has decided to spice things up with a typhoon named…
Getting Together on Christmas Eve
It was an unplanned event for me and Ralph because we didn’t initially want to stay longer downstairs. We just wanted to give our gifts to the kids and go back up and resume our TV Programs but I guess the Christmas spirit took its…
Ralph’s brush with Dengue
I have not seen my husband so worried than when he was diagnosed of having Dengue fever! A few days prior to our visit to the doctor, he was already feeling too sick to move and felt muscular weakness all throughout his body. He was…