My dad’s name is Bonifacio, a somewhat barriotic name that I once lumped with Eustaquio, Procopio, and Susisa (my lola’s name). Nothing of import really, just that today is the official Bonifacio Day, and not tomorrow or any other day that Gloria deems fit to declare to bolster her perpetually sagging popularity.
My dad’s father was [...]
My last day at work and I have a nasty hangover. Kids, it’s never a good thing to drink like a fish the previous night if you have to wake up really early the following morning.
The group despite my plea for a despedida-less resignation threw one for me anyway. Not that it wasn’t appreciated, I [...]
I walked out this morning
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me
Every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name
And that our love would always last
And inside every [...]
I want to write 30. I don’t mean going six feet under or anything that involves the loss of breath, or life, or anything that morbid. I want to write 30 for my corporate alter-ego. I want to bury that part, that phase that had me chasing sleep and bemoaning the coming [...]
