Filipina
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Sausage on Curried Lentils and Rice
This is one of those use-what-you-have recipes, so I don’t provide amounts. Continue reading
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Grilled Tuna on White Bean Salad
A super-quick and easy salad to put together, topped with grilled tuna. Canned tuna can be subbed, of course, just so happened that my local fresh fish monger (Seafood Station) had some fresh tuna and I couldn’t pass it up.… Continue reading
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Sticky Toffee Pudding
This is a dessert that not a lot of people talk about these days, though knowing that fads come and go, I’m sure one day people will remember it and start looking for the recipe again. I love this recipe… Continue reading
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A Mother’s Prayer
Years and years ago when my kids were still little, I came across this prayer in a newspaper (might have been Our Sunday Visitor), that a mom said she prayed every night after tucking her kids into bed. It was… Continue reading
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The Fifth Joyful Mystery: A Tale of Two Vocations
For the past several months I’ve been meditating a lot on the Fifth Joyful Mystery, more than I used to. For one thing, I had been wondering why this mystery is called JOYFUL. Whenever I read or hear the Gospel… Continue reading
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The Gift of Cancellation
Cancel Culture isn’t new, though the phrase is (relatively). People have always cut off ties when relationships no longer work for them. Anyone who has lost friends/a significant other knows this. Social media just made it worse — “friendships” became “easier”,… Continue reading
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Protected: Trust: What Would Mary Do?
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading
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Humans + Animal Behavior: Offensive or Not?
The Internet seems to have lost its collective brain cells again, this time thanks to boxing superstar and pride of the Philippines Manny Pacquiao’s statement on same sex “marriage”, saying, Common sense lang. Makakita ka ba ng any animals na… Continue reading
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Culture of Life Rising (Abortion Compilation) | August 2015 – January 2016
I haven’t been able to blog much lately. Busy with several projects and expect to remain this busy until the latter half of the year. Also need to declutter my digital space badly, so for a while, my posts here… Continue reading
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Permanence and the Intimacy of Marriage
A recent conversation with the 6-year-old alarmed me. He was sitting on the couch as I folded laundry and out of the blue he burst out, “I think I want to have a child, but I don’t think I’ll get… Continue reading
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