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By Nancy David Galang I lie awake at 4am. My mind ever so active. Thinking. Just always thinking.  Sadness creeps in as it usually does when all my kids are fast and deeply asleep, including Amara, my dear apo who is sleeping like a little angel beside me. I am just thinking.    Random thoughts just keep coming.  What could my dad be doing right this moment?  Does he miss all of us, the way me, my siblings, my mom, and his friends, miss him? I knew he wanted to live for at least 5 more years. What else did he want to do in those five years?  Did I make my dad proud?  What would he have said to me for the last time if he had the chance?  I am sure I would have wanted to tell him "Thank you. I love you. I am nothing without you." Paulit-ulit. Sabay mahigpit na yakap. Will this feeling of sadness end? Or as my friends who have lost someone close to them have said: "It won't, but you will get used to it."  Pero, paano ka masasanay sa ganito kasak...

(This blog is dedicated to all the great women I have come to know. They were those who shared their own struggles and successes with me and I in turn, was blessed and inspired. I was able to gather pictures of some of them, but surely there are more of these women friends, colleagues, and relatives who I never had a picture with. In the captions below each picture, I shared why I celebrate these women) I  am proud to have transformed to the woman that I am now. In celebration of Women's month, allow me to look back on my journey as a woman.  How did I come to be?  The first man in my life, my dad, always taught me to go after my dreams and to achieve all the goals I have set for myself. He tried to instill in me how to make the right choice with men (but obviously failed). He did not want me to lose my own identity once I got married (if he had his way, he did not want me to get married at all).  He was the first man to be proud of whatever I achieved, big or s...

Mga Nan-sis! Ilang days na lang we will celebrate or (maybe a better term) commemorate one year of being in quarantine. I remember it was March 15 when our country was placed under GCQ, which eventually became ECQ, then MGCQ and now back to GCQ. I hope I got that right. So aside from adopting three cats and welcoming Lulu (golden retriever) during the pandemic, what  were the things that I have done during the pandemic? What were my realizations about life? Have I done anything worth the "pandemic while?" Maybe these three questions are worth asking ourselves at this time. All of us experienced being locked in the house for, I think, at least 3 months.  Then some of us were called back to work, reporting a few times a week. Until some commercial establishments were allowed to operate again, at unti-unti na rin tayong nakakalabas. (Pero remind ko lang kayo, mga Nan-sis, na kahit ngayon if we can stay at home and just go out when necessary, let's do so. Covid is real!) Our ...