My Rocking Cradle

If you can’t take blunt reality being thrown in your face, then you are not ready for this: This is an old (2008) Pulitzer Prize winner. It took me until nearly the end of the story before finally understanding that there really is no connection among all the 13 stories that make up this novel [...]

My first job with ACCRALAW was supposed to give me a good start in the legal profession, lol! But I am now legal head of my own household, hahahaha. Anyway, that part of my life gave me good memories and good experiences. One of which was the rare opportunity to work with Nick Joaquin (yes! [...]

Reading Frank McCourt was a humbling experience. I will surely not look at the kids on the streets, the kids with tattered clothes on, the kids with no shoes on, and even the most filthy kids around in the same way again. Through Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt recounted his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland. A [...]

Book courtesy of Book Sneeze Having read Jack Welch’s Jack Straight From the Gut, I had high expectations for this book. After all, they were (Ralph de la Vega still holds the position today) both CEOs of very successful companies. But I was in for a little disappointment. It was probably because of the writing [...]

plucked this one from a Facebook post: How do you expect kids to listen to their parents when Tarzan lives half naked, Cinderella comes home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives at 200 mph, Sleeping Beauty is lazy, and Snow White lives with 7 guys. We [...]

My law school classmates have gone a long way already. Most of them have graduated and are preparing for the bar. Others have already passed and are practicing. The best news I got during our get-together last week was three of them have books to their names. Atty. Sheila Emata recently co-authored Human Resource Forms, [...]

Article first published as Book Review: The Way of Boys by Anthony Rao on Blogcritics. I have two boys. I am not worried about their development – physically, socially, intellectually and emotionally. They are two normal boys making our daily lives a roller coaster of emotions. They laugh, they cry, they throw tantrums and charm [...]

It is easy to dislike the tiger mom – both the book and the author. Immediately after I watched Amy Chua’s interview in CNN for her book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, I raised the extreme parenting method which she seemed to have confidently used in raising her daughters to my husband. Days after, [...]

It’s Little Dynamo’s 2 weeks spring vacation. Our house is a mess of toys and books. Some days we go out with friends. Some days we are at a friend’s house or at the building’s playroom. Some days friends are in the house. But all the mornings, we spend inside the house. It’s a battle between [...]

I struggled to sleep for two nights but I can’t put down the book. And so in less than 48 hours, I finished reading Lalita Tademy’s Cane River. Cane River is about four women slaves of different generation who, silenced by their time’s social mores, struggled to rise above the condition of their birth. They [...]