1.“Are you still single?” and “How are you?” are not the same questions, so be careful how you greet me at parties. “Yes, I’m fine, I’ve moved, been promoted, finished a marathon, boxed for charity, recovered from a fracture since you last saw me, but yes, I am […]
I grew up in the Philippines,growing up there was challenging, you see, my culture was in love with two things: beauty pageants and.. boxing.And at an early age, I knew that if I wanted people to celebrate me, I either have to be spectacularly beautiful or brutal and unafraid to bleed.For me to be spectacularly […]
Dear Soldier, The war in that part of our country has been going on for a while now. I heard they have finally declared the city free, but for most of you, it has been too late. I owe you an apology. I am sorry that while you were running for your […]
04:11:39: I have learned, is enough time to morph into a different person. 04:11:39… 4 hours 11 minutes and 39 seconds, that was the amount of time I spent running a marathon in the most beautiful city in the world and if my calculations are right, that’s also roughly the amount of time I have […]
I often get hit, violently, on the face,while playing dodge ball. The last time it happened my ears rang. You know that part in movies when the character’s memories of life flashes in front of them? Yeah, that’s not how it felt.. I just saw a great white sheet of well.. WHITE. […]
I got out of the car in slow motion, I was asleep for more than half of the two hour trip to Rila monastery from Sofia.I was dehydrated, but it felt like I was home somehow. I get those few adults moments, mostly when I go running,when I would feel some sort of nostalgia which […]
There I was ,sipping Belgian beer squinting under the “summer” sun in London. “Don’t like the sun?” He asked. “I’d rather have winter, than a summer that pretends to be there but never commits.” He stared at me like I was mad, they all do. I knew I sounded like I was already drunk, but […]
DEAR PRINCE CHARMING, Where the hell are you? I am about to give up, cut my hair and run to get out of the forest. I’ve met and escaped so many wolves some of them I have slain with my bare hands but none of them I have […]
GET UP Flush the vodka off your system get up take a shower its safe to cry there get up your bones are not broken your heart is still pumping somewhere get up, comb your dark brown hair go leave the room its cold you know get up put on […]
When I was a kid we played the London bridge game, where we sang the London bridge song and two kids made an arch and lower down the arch to catch a kid who passes through when the “my fair lady” bit is sung.Recalling it now,I think we were fooled as kids, but what do […]