ber months are here

Our island home in Western Visayas, Philippines celebrate our ber months in honor of our local harvests., Markets acclaim the toiling growers who provide generous bounty and fresh produce for our home fare and community feasts. 

Food is central here in this agricultural culture and our lives center around it. Negros Island is famous for all its special and quality delicacies. Homemade, locally sourced, organically grown, and caringly tended. 

Our annual farmers fair is a crowd drawer - which usually starts locally at the end of September, going on monthly until December. Participants come from outlying provinces, towns and barangays of Negros to trade their goods. 

today's mixed bag

Life is both a roller coaster ride and a box of chocolates - full of surprise! 

wonder | wander | women opened our day with this valuable Girl God Books post by Soraya Chemaly. 

Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. As a cultural critic, she writes and speaks frequently about gender norms, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence, politics, and technology.

With her trademark clarity and unapologetic truth-telling, she exposes the political, economic, and cultural forces that keep “everything” out of reach for so many.

goodbye summer

wonder | wander | women love the change of seasons but this year autumn fell like evening, too fast. It feels like we were barely able to enjoy summer before it was already over. Still, we made the most of it while we could.

An afternoon drawing in a local park

When people try to portray memories they show scenes like clips in a video. This year our memories of summer are more like fragmented colours and sensations. Bright colours, cool breezes, scalding sunlight.

monumental drift

Being back in the Philippines after almost two decades away can be an assault to the senses. It is a double edged sword of dualities and polarities, treats and tricks, insights and intrusions. 

wonder | wander | women were happy to be back in the warm fold of our equatorial homeland. Bright sunshine, blaring horns, dreamy sugary desserts, and long twisted familial tales. 

island shades of green

It was a great time to return. An escape from the bonkers second term of a flailing Trumpist reign of failed tariff errors. A sweet retreat back in the home of our parents in what turned out to be their last bonus years around us. 

travels with our papa

wonder | wander | women have so many fond memories of traveling with family. My aunts and uncles are seasoned travelers and we loved tagging along with grandparents on trips to Europe, the US, Asia, and all over the Philippines.

a rainy day in Italy