My soles know no better than my heart Why my path leads to you. Their rough, lined skin a poor Protection against your call. The cracks on the heels Are the same as my heart’s. ~ FMJemena, U.P. Manila 1999   Links:: Inspirational Stories, Life Stories, Love Stories, Funny Stories, Kindness Stories, Folktales, Spiritual [...]

Three weeks until our first baby. Yay!  Three weeks to go.  Three weeks to organize, three weeks to relax and three weeks to enjoy my last three weeks of quietness… I decided to invite my parents in law to stay as it was my husband’s birthday. What a good wife I was! Looking and feeling [...]

Right in the middle of Japan, high up among the mountains, an old man lived in his little house. He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back, so that the smell of the trees [...]

Love always finds a way in each and everybody’s life. Without love there is no life. Everybody fall in love at some point of time in their life, whether it may be love at first sight or maybe its friendship turned into love, or in some cases love after marriage. This is the way I [...]

It was Sunday and I was returning from my sister’s place. I left early thinking that I might get a seat in the metro and it would be a rather easy to make this otherwise an hour long tiring journey. But since my bad luck was so adamantly following me everywhere, I couldn’t get a [...]

The breeze was at its nastiest best and her hair continued to be out of control. By the sea, she stood alone, late at night, looking at the sky. She wore a white gown, and she let the sand touch it, soil it, add its own color to it. Everything around her seemed to be having a [...]

WATERFALL Occasional bursts of sunshine is all a man can desire on a cold and cloudy December afternoon, when the sun is playing hide and seek with you. I am sitting by a window, which overlooks marvellous mountains, and lush greenery scattered everywhere. The sun is blessing me with its occasional appearances. As I am [...]

My Journey As I entered into the small one bedroom flat of my son, I could feel another female’s presence. The other one was not visible but I knew she was here. I stopped my feet from further advancement. I knew it ought to be a young female as the setting of the room and [...]

After spending 10 days visiting Katmandu (KMD), Nepal, I decided to take a bus to the Indian border. Arriving by taxi at the city’s bus station, I realized  I needed to find a toilet.  A gentleman pointed to where it was, and feeling my way through a very dark area with mud and debris, I [...]

Angkor Wat, Cambodia: Feb. 16-21, 2010 Tanh, my caregiver and good friend, and I flew to Angkor Wat, from HCM City (formerly Saigon) where we spent five days in mid-February 2010. We stayed at the Ensala hotel that showed four stars for $47.44, it included breakfast, which we learned the next morning was a luxurious [...]