When Google Tells You Your Mother Is Dead
I am writing this not as a historian, not as a neutral party, and definitely not as someone trying to stir drama. I am writing this as a wife who is utterly heartbroken for her ...
From Shy Boy to Runway Boy: I Did NOT See This Coming
If you told me five years ago—heck, even five months ago—that my son Ken Matthew Navarro, the same kid who used to hide behind me when a stranger so much as looked in his direction, ...
Part 4 – Finding the Silver Lining: How the Worst Week of Our Lives Led Us Exactly Where We Needed to Be
If life had a twisted sense of humor — and I’m now convinced it does — then our 16th wedding anniversary was its punchline. After surviving a bone fracture, an ambulance that doubled as a ...
Part 3: The Refund Olympics at BAMC — The Event No One Wants, Needs, or Should Ever Have to Repeat
If anyone ever asks me what rock bottom looks like, I will confidently answer: “It’s waking up at 5AM to rising flood water, a screaming husband with a fresh fracture, and realizing you can’t outrun ...
Part 2: My Rainy Night at Bacolod Adventist Medical Center
After the rollercoaster that was South Bacolod General Hospital & Medical Center, the STYX ambulance finally whisked us away to Bacolod Adventist Medical Center/Bacolod Sanitarium — the only hospital that, after a city-wide medical ghosting ...
Part 1: The Accident, The Ambulance, and The Very Long Wait to Nowhere
If the universe wanted to teach me a lesson about marriage, patience, and why Mondays are cursed, it picked November 24th to drop the entire curriculum on my head. It started like an ordinary rainy Monday ...
If Only We Let Nature Do Its Job
Let’s be honest — at this point, the Philippines should be on a first-name basis with floods. We don’t just get flooded; we bond with them. They come for a visit, stay for weeks, leave ...
A Love Letter to My 14-Year-Old Generator
You’ve been with us since the days when buying you was a leap of faith. Back then, we didn’t have much in savings — just a desperate need to survive my love-hate relationship with Noceco ...
When the Earth Groans, Are We Even Listening?
Earthquakes, wildfires, volcano eruptions, political chaos — if this isn’t the loudest wake-up call from the universe, I don’t know what is. Everywhere we turn, something is burning, breaking, or falling apart — and yet ...
Is the World Ending, or Is It Just the Philippines?
So, I asked the million-peso question the other day: “When is the world ending?” Because honestly, if you’ve been living in the Philippines lately, it feels like we’re at least on Season Finale of Planet ...
When the Ground Shakes, Faith Holds Us Still
The recent 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Bogo, Cebu has left families shaken—literally and emotionally. Even after the tremors stopped, the fear of aftershocks lingers. How do you find peace when the very ground beneath your ...
When Corruption Becomes Our Daily Flood
There are days when I feel like I can’t breathe—not because of the actual floodwaters rising around us, but because of the disgusting corruption that has become so normal in this country that it’s practically ...
