Travel

Intimacy With A Stranger

YOU were a welcome – or better – an almost necessary distraction. You had to disturb my state of sedation masked as equilibrium. You were the fated catalyst to my […]

Love

Limited Edition

My 81 year old dad calls me at 10:30PM Manila time to discuss the logistics of getting me home from the airport next week. Since I arrive late evening and […]

Love

Cafe Swotha

We never pick who we fall in love with And it never happens like it should I was so sure we were meant to be But you couldn’t love me […]

Soul

Just Look Up

We pay so much attention to each and every tangle and worry about every single insignificant knot in our messed up worlds that we forget how easy it is to […]

Soul

Test of Time

We build things, create legacies and preserve dynasties all for standing the ultimate test – that of Time. For what? Are they all worth everything we sacrificed them for?

Soul

Turn To The Wise

In the end, this life we all live is about relationships and feelings. Intimacy. In the end, we ponder about the relationships we wish we had, and the ones we […]

Depression

That Warm and Fuzzy Feeling, and A Big Word Called Home

One of the online dictionaries I found define home […]

Love

Conquer and Recover

My last pleasure trip was twenty months ago. A lot of things have happened in between. Marriage broke down. Mama died. I was happy to somehow breathe a sigh of […]

Love

No Entry

Among the many things in life that I don’t understand is why we somehow establish connections we so crave with people unable to bring that bond further and deeper. There are limitations. There […]

Depression

As Time Goes By

There are days when nothing can just lift you up. Then they turn into weeks. Then months. Then one day you look at yourself and ask – where did the […]

Soul

Eiffel Tower and Me

It was the Fall of 2012. I was seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time. My sister especially planned a route that offered breathtaking views of the tower as […]

Soul

Travel Alone. It’s Good For You.

One thing I realized about meeting people, especially when travelling alone, is that life will somehow throw in the characters that will help you express, experience or heal whatever it is that’s inside […]

Travel

Talk To The Hand

The Hamsa is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings. Depicting the open right hand, an image recognized […]