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Last January 16, Ralph, Ken, and I attended one of my best friends’ birthday celebration at Vikings Luxury Buffet. And yes—this was my second Vikings invite for the same birthday, just on a different date. ...
During the COVID era, when travel felt like an extreme sport and government paperwork felt even more dangerous, my husband Ralph had to renew his ACR I-Card in Iloilo City. At the time, borders were unpredictable, ...
I turned 47 today. No midlife crisis. No sudden urge to buy something impractical or announce a brand-new personality. Just me, still standing, slightly wiser, and very aware that aging is really just emotional decluttering with ...
Editor's Note (July 2026): Since publishing this article, I have been contacted by a relative of Sheila Ritoch who shared additional information about Sheila's final years and her desire to reconnect with Ralph. I have ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
