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Continue reading →: The Flour in Our LivesI just started watching The Last of Us. I’m only on Season 1, Episode 3, so please, no spoilers. 😄 A few scenes in, though, I already have a feeling this show is going to give me quite a few moments where I want to pause and think about something.…
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Continue reading →: Ep 05 – Believe the behaviorHi Diwa… Today I want to teach you something small that will probably protect your heart many times in life.Ready? Here it is:When someone’s words and actions don’t match… pay attention to the actions. Or as grown-ups sometimes say: “Believe the behaviour.”Now that doesn’t mean people have to be perfect…
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Continue reading →: Ep 04 – Family is more than blood
Hi Diwa… A few days ago, we celebrated your baptism. You were tiny. Confused. Probably wondering why so many adults suddenly wanted to carry you around and take photos with you. Honestly? Typical Filipino family event chaos. But while everyone was gathered together, I found myself thinking a lot about family.…
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Continue reading →: Ep 03 – Tiny Things Matter
Hi Diwa… Today you turned two months old. Two whole months. Which probably doesn’t sound very impressive to adults, but honestly? Every tiny milestone feels huge when you’re a mother. Two months of late-night feeds. Two months of random crying detective work. Two months of staring at you like a complete weirdo while…
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Continue reading →: Ep 02 – Becoming Your Mother Later in Life
Hey, Diwa. It is 1:34am. You are soundly asleep — sleeping like a log. Late night thoughts. I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to become a mother in your mid to late forties. Because the truth is, it changes the way you experience time. When…
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Continue reading →: Ep 01 – Let’s start with your name
Dear Diwa, You’re turning two months old in a few days. Which is honestly insane to me because I still feel like I just met you yesterday. Right now I’m doing this recording while you’re asleep beside me, and I keep looking over every few minutes just to make sure…
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Continue reading →: Individual vs. Population Health: Choosing What’s Best for Your ChildI want to speak my thoughts for a moment. Right now, the dominant public-health narrative strongly promotes universal vaccination as a population-level strategy. That perspective is widely amplified and institutionally supported. There is another lens: individualized, risk-based decision-making. I believe that lens deserves space in the conversation, too. Population-level prevention…
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Continue reading →: What If We Are About to Enter a New Dark Age?We’ve been told about time, history, and the way human beings have tried to make sense of the past. We speak about history as though it were a perfectly preserved record. We place events neatly along a timeline. We give centuries names. We assign dates to wars, births, discoveries, civilizations…
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Continue reading →: The Ladder We Never QuestionedA lot of Filipinos are excited about remote work right now, and rightly so. But “remote work” usually gets flattened into one meaning: a job you do from home instead of an office. Same boss, same schedule, same structure, just no commute. That’s remote employment. It’s not the same thing…
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