Under Five

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The Winter Olympics has come and gone and I'm remembering a summer I spent with sailors. I packed my bags, left my twenty month-old daughter in the care of my mom, and spent ten days at the beach. 

Photo credit Cris Medina | Passionart (@HEKAU | @Passionart)

I've been in love with NYC for as long as I can remember. Thanks to a trip for work, I finally met the city of my dreams and fell in love. I'm smitten still and look forward to seeing her again.

Sometimes we all need some time away from social networking. For me, it's highly personal seasons when I avoid my default to overshare. For Neil Gaiman, it's the need to be bored.

Photo credit Cris Medina | Passionart (@HEKAU | @Passionart)

The average person only stays at their job for 4.4 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's even shorter for Millennials. I met someone who stayed at hers for fifty.

Have goals and New Year's resolutions for 2014? Ssssshh. Better not tell anyone about them or else...

Do you have unfinished business that needs finishing? I almost did until yesterday. Thank you, 2013. I look forward to 2014 giving me what I least expect yet need the most.

Be present and relinquish control this Christmas and you just might be surprised by the outcome.

The Philippines has the distinction of being the country with the longest Christmas celebration in the world. Philippine Christmas star lanterns are one of a kind. Christmas is definitely one of the things I miss about Manila.

What are we doing with the dash of our lives that mark the time between our birth and death?

Thanksgiving Past and Present and the five things I'm grateful for the most in 2013.

My mom would've been eighty-one today. She had light brown eyes and had a twenty-two inch waist back in the day. Dorothy was a 4'11" Filipina who married a 5'10" American.

New research says long distance love is not as doomed as once thought.

Noshing with the change of season. I'm not alone in my increased appetite when the days are shorter, the nights are longer, and the temperatures drop.