Dear lia
A poem for my daughter on her eleventh birthday.
Personal journal
Stories, insights, and ramblings from my journal.
Letter #24: Eleven
A letter on love, showing up, and letting go, and a poem for my daughter on her eleventh year on Earth.
Mags & journals that accept previously published work
These magazines and journals will accept your previously published poems, prose, and art – and the majority of them pay!
Returning to our personal forest on International Forest Day
Trees are the ultimate embodiment of altruism. They exist solely to give life. May we keep loving and tending to the forest of our lives.
To men asking why women feel the need to post so many selfies
Maybe selfies are a way for women to reclaim space. Maybe it’s us using our voice in conversations where we are often unheard and excluded.
Small wins: my first paid poem
On a Texas-based print literary mag accepting and paying for my poem, why that matters so much and why it felt so validating, even if the payment is small.
DOH Healthy Pilipinas & FREE TO BE U Partner in End-AIDS-by-2030 Effort through Festival of Luv
Held at The Pop Up, Katipunan on February 25, Festival of Luv aims to promote healthy behaviors to protect Filipinos from HIV and AIDS.
On your birthday
My skull does not intend to tilt on its axis, but every 24th an arrival & a departure squaring my moon: day we met, day we parted, day you were born.
On first trike rides and letting go
Today my ten-year old took her first public transport alone to and from school. And it was the hardest thing to watch.
To be light
To be light is to recognize your feet are stuck in the mud, and they must first be unstuck, before you can pull others out.
Loving someone is loving the people they lost, too.
It was a cold and dewy morning on the walk home, but the…
Returning to an old new
On returning to the road, to one’s old self, and the small joys that growing up and heartbreak threaten to diminish.
Dear 2022, You F*cking Broke My Heart.
Dear 2022, If I can describe you in one word, it would be “trainwreck”.
Letter #23: Always
My most loved Lia, I sometimes kid how unfair it is that you…
Dear Jam
An epistolary poem for my friend who’s on a healing journey and celebrating her birthday.
Dear TJ
An epistolary poem for possibly the longest-running male friendship I have – and a guy who gets into my nerves sometimes.