This is a sponsored review from BlogHer and Stouffer’s.
Tom and I are simple folk. I can’t recall the last time we planned a candlelit dinner. (I suspect it will be a while before we light any candles.) We rarely eat out, for which I am grateful because at the end of a long day, I’m really not in the mood to get all gussied up to drive to a restaurant. Besides, I don’t even know how to gussy up. It’s a wonder I even know what the phrase means.
There are few things that can make me just sit still, or instantly transport me to a different time and place: the cry of a plaintive violin, a lingering sunset, the warm nuzzle of Pacific waters, music that gives heartache such enviable beauty. And poetry—the kind that cuts right through, needing no excess of words to drown its sentiment, letting you fill the necessary spaces with your own voice.
When a poem is so masterfully written, hearing it read aloud is often a hit-or-miss affair. When it misses, it’s almost painful to hear. But when it hits, oh, what new life it gives to those familiar words.
Yes, I know it’s been a while since I last put up a new post. While I absolutely love my homemade Nutella chips, that’s not the reason you’ve had to look at them for the past few weeks. Not entirely. (I do think they deserved the extended exposure anyway. Those cookies are good.)
This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Intel.
Disclosure: Some weeks ago, BlogHer and Intel offered the opportunity to review the new Intel® Core™ i5 processor, wrapped up inside a new laptop and a really cool Intel® Wireless Display (a.k.a. WiDi) that I would get to keep. Read on for my review.
I like lists. Lists are an easy way to organize items or ideas, you can easily check things off as they get done (or don’t apply anymore), and they make things look doable. But an entire home inventory that takes weeks and weeks to complete? That’s a list of epic proportions. And I don’t like things when they break the “everything in moderation” rule. Unless they’re covered in chocolate. Or wrapped in bacon.
This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Intel.
Disclosure: Some weeks ago, BlogHer and Intel offered the opportunity to review the new Intel® Core™ i5 processor, wrapped up inside a new laptop and a really cool Intel® Wireless Display (a.k.a. WiDi) that I would get to keep. Read on and you’ll see why I was happy to do it. Then stay tuned next week for the actual review.
Life hasn’t been the same since September, when everything changed in an instant. Many of you know the reason for that. On one hand, so many things have been simplified for us. Less clothes to wash, no more of the usual clutter lying around, no growing stacks of old papers to put in their respective folders, and no more of those periodic basement and attic cleanings. It’s quite nice not to have to spend my free time tidying up. On the other hand, our days are now filled with new tasks—more pressing, time-sensitive demands—and a more urgent need for organization.
I write, cook, play music, and make pictures. Not necessarily in that order. I was born and raised in the Philippines, and it shows. That means I eat rice with every meal, love my cousins like my own siblings, and firmly believe that avocados are best eaten with cream and sugar.
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One summer night in 2010, our house burned to the ground and we lost everything we had. This is the story of what happened and how life and hope can always rise from ashes.
