When I was about 11 or 12 I would watch Food Network on weekends and summers. One of my favourite shows was Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa. I enjoyed cooking shows a lot but wasn’t necessarily empowered to cook. All the ingredients were inaccessible to me. Where would I find these herbs and cheese in a small city in the Philippines?…
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Ageing, beauty and oranges
At work, there are a couple of older women that I really like. Martha-Lucia always greets me with enthusiasm. She always says she lives every day to the fullest because life is short and you just never know what happens. I often wonder what experiences stand behind those words. Then there’s Hannah, who is always so blunt and pragmatic. At…
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Things That Bother Me
At a party, an acquaintance says “aww, you two are so cute, are you together?” and while still in his arms, I answer “no, we’re just friends.” it’s August now and I’m blasting Taylor Swift on speaker while I eat ice cream in bed. A kid at the playground tells me she doesn’t like me and I ask why. “You’re…
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Things That Make Me Go ‘Waaaah’
My cousin started crying when she saw us outside of her AirBnb. She was in town for a few days with her family. We hadn’t seen each other for more than a decade. I was reminded that we had a bigger family, and I realized how caught up we were in our own lives that we had forgotten to keep…
