Happy Father’s Day Papa!

Dear Papa, I know that you are in a better place now but sometimes I can’t help but  wish you were still alive because I miss you so much. I miss having a father to talk to when I’m upset and when I’m also ecstatic. You were a great father to me and my siblings. [...]

Grow Old With You

Hi Honey, From the first time I saw you, you just took my breath away. Everything about you makes me want to hold you until the rest of the earth just melts away around us, and even then I would not let go. You brighten my day and I can tell that you will be [...]

Quotable Quotes

Be like a postage stamp – stick to one thing until you get there. ~Josh Billings Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground – not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. ~Robertson Davies, The Manticore Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ~Corrie [...]

Felt Like a Survey Kind of Moment

1. What’s one thing that’s heavily weighing on your mind? Finding a new place to live. 2. What’s one thing you’ve learned lately from love? It’s unexpected. 3. Is there anyone special in your life right now? Yes. 4. What’s a happy time you’ve had in the past week? I don’t recall. 5. Is there [...]

My Reflection

This I wrote on the 27th of August, 2006: A mirror is a reminder of everything I wish I never was so I smashed the glass… … there came one thousand broken pieces reflecting one thousand broken me and despising what will never be whole. =( Ate Cathy (Catherine Ladores), whom I consider as one [...]

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

For John Vlachoulis: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as the popular cliché goes. I have firsthand experience to attest this claim. This long distance thing is, without a doubt, painful, but my adoration for you just continues to blossom. Our love for each other is so amazing that I, myself, could hardly believe that [...]

Watch or Read “Message in a Bottle” by Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle is one of the most incredible and finest novels written by Nicholas Sparks. The story starts when a woman, named Theresa Osborne, who is a newspaper columnist, goes to Cape Cod on her break from work, and finds a bottle washed ashore. Inside the bottle is a letter that unfolds an [...]

A Simple Lesson from a Simple Story

“Once you are real, you cannot be ugly, except for those people who do not understand you.” ~ Skin Horse (from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams)

Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho

The title “Eleven Minutes” (a novel written by Paolo Coelho) refers to what the author’s main character Maria finds out about the sexual act: it takes only eleven minutes on average to finish but people are just so obsessed with it. This is a book seemingly about sex, and all the good and bad associated [...]

Just a Quote

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