Five-word advice for tomorrows

I pity the angels. Tonight, their immaculate-white clothes will be covered with soot. What with all the fireworks dotting the night sky, there’s bound to be some dust that will pierce through the clouds and make their way to heaven. I should tell them,
“Sorry for the dirtied clothes. It’s New Year, you know, and [...]

cakes and closets

Last night, at Mexicali’s, I had a cute Goldilocks’ chocolate mousse courtesy of my DG–savvy group of women whom I meet at least twice in a month to learn and have fun with (two of them are in the US right now, enjoying their first White Christmas). They surprised me with a 5-day early birthday [...]

wishes on colored paper

Got some short wishes written on colored paper last Monday. During our company Christmas program, each one was encouraged to make a Christmas wish for somebody else—anybody else—in the room. Sheepishly, I admit that I got more wishes than the few I gave away.
It wasn’t surprising for me, really, to know what most of these [...]

Sleepless in December

Even in my dreams, I was giftwrapping. No wonder I woke up tired, with wrists hurting. (Or at least, that’s my hypothesis. But then again, maybe a more telling reason could be that I barely had four hours of sleep before rushing to work today after burning the past-midnight oil with scissors and tape in [...]