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4 days ago

Re-Entering the Dark

On finding my way through grief in a dark political time — I’m deep in grief. My country, the Philippines, has elected as president the unapologetic heir of a murderous and plundering dictator we’d ousted in a dramatic show of people power almost 40 years ago. Months prior to election day, many of us turned to the streets again and again in…

Politics

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Re-Entering the Dark
Re-Entering the Dark

Published in Un-Niched

·5 days ago

Dislodging the Phone

On creativity and neurodivergence — Yesterday, I found my three-year-old Joaquin picking up the phone, punching on the numbers, and talking like someone’s on the other end of the line. No, he didn’t call someone. I teared up a bit because, finally, he was role playing. I can’t tell whether it was because of the…

Disability

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Dislodging the Phone
Dislodging the Phone

Published in Eat and Tell

·Feb 13

A Cheese and/or Charcuterie Course Every Night, for 5 Nights

5 themed grazing boards with barely any repeat ingredients — A story I recently posted about making charcuterie boards last Christmas is picking up thousands of reads from Google, and I think I know why. It’s February, the love month. It’s the season again for grazing and wine. Here in Eat and Tell, however, I’ve mostly written about the personal…

Food

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A Cheese and/or Charcuterie Course Every Night, for 5 Nights
A Cheese and/or Charcuterie Course Every Night, for 5 Nights

Published in Un-Niched

·Feb 8

Quick Thoughts About “All Of Us Are Dead”

Teaching and parenting in a zombie emergency — All of Us Are Dead is a South Korean zombie thriller on Netflix that mostly takes place in a school, with a band of surviving teenage students moving from one classroom to the next (science lab, art room, gym, etc.), dodging and locking out zombie classmates along the way. For…

Review

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Quick Thoughts About “All Of Us Are Dead”
Quick Thoughts About “All Of Us Are Dead”

Jan 24

I’ll Never Know If What I Had Was Covid

Wild thoughts during self-imposed isolation — Today is my 14th day of self-isolation since three of us in our house — me, my spouse Francis, and our toddler Joaquin — went down with fever, body ache, headaches, and sniffles. Five days before the three of us had symptoms together, it was our 9-year-old daughter Dione who…

Covid 19

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I’ll Never Know If What I Had Was Covid
I’ll Never Know If What I Had Was Covid

Published in Un-Niched

·Jan 11

3 Recurring Dreams

Clues for daytime self-understanding — My dreams tend to be repetitive, and at their most vivid, during eventful, intense moments in my waking life. I’ve learned over time to regard them as clues to deeper feelings I may not be fully acknowledging, especially when my struggles require that I show a bold front. During uncertain…

Nonfiction

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3 Recurring Dreams
3 Recurring Dreams

Published in Eat and Tell

·Jan 6

Ignore the Clutter. Make that Neat, Little Charcuterie Board.

How I kept my sanity this merry holiday season — I discovered something about myself last month, December 2021, as folks felt like gathering again after two years of pandemic eternity. I’m a chef’s wife who can’t cook. I absolutely have no interest in learning how. I can’t stand the kitchen heat. I’m deathly afraid of knives. And I’ve got…

Food

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Ignore the Clutter. Make that Neat, Little Charcuterie Board.
Ignore the Clutter. Make that Neat, Little Charcuterie Board.

Published in Un-Niched

·Jan 3

The Dilemma of Survival in “The Silent Sea”

Barrenness, abundance, and water as life and resource — What if the moon’s Mare Tranquillitatis, the Sea of Tranquility — the huge dark spot on the moon’s northern hemisphere, and famously Apollo 11’s landing site — turns out to be a literal sea? The moon’s seas are not actual seas, but barren, lower altitude plains that look like dark…

Review

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The Dilemma of Survival in “The Silent Sea”
The Dilemma of Survival in “The Silent Sea”

Published in Un-Niched

·Dec 12, 2021

Cat in the Moonlight

Memories of a memory — Of all the stories my husband Francis had told me about his childhood, this one struck me the most. The first time I heard the story, we were still dating and I was in college as a creative writing major. One of the courses I was taking up at that…

Nonfiction

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Cat in the Moonlight
Cat in the Moonlight

Published in Un-Niched

·Dec 5, 2021

About Un-Niched

Updated introduction — Iconfess that I never liked, and never warmed up, to the title I had given this publication. For lack of what would, to my mind, be a better term, I stuck with “Un-niched,” which could mean an uprooting, a dislodging, from a place where one was previously stuck. Come to…

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About Un-Niched
About Un-Niched
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Beach mom. Chef's wife. Literature prof, writer.

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