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Weekly Writing Challenge: Third Date at Hopper’s Diner
Date number three. January. We meet at the MFA. He tells me that one of his favorite paintings is Hopper’s Nighthawks. Anonymous faces at a city diner: the fedora with the cigarette and red-head almost...
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Daily Prompt: The Significance of Starry Nights
There is, though I don’t know how there is, or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of...
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Our Honeymoon in Paris — With My Kid Sister
As a Filipino immigrant in the United States, my refrain with my family has been, This is beautiful. I wish you were here. Every time I get on a plane, I check out the maps in the back of in-flight...
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Remembering Christmas: Singing Towards Bethlehem
If we sing “Oh, Holy Night,” I’m going to lose my shit, I whispered to my sister M. My arms tingled. The last time I heard my favorite Christmas song play in a church, I must have been seventeen years...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth
1. My husband J. and I picked a home that was walking distance from school. I don’t drive, so our home needed to be a comfortable distance from my job. In the last nineteen months, I’ve walked to work...
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Daily Post: Becoming an ‘Ate’
My parents tell the story about how I was two years and nine months old when my sister L. was born on Christmas Eve and my uncle N. carried his daughter V. in one arm and me, in the other, and in a...
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Daily Post: New Skin, New Passport
In the summer of 2008, while I was on vacation in the Philippines, I received that e-mail from my best friend A. We had hung out for a week together in my birthplace of Manila, Philippines, for Part...
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Interview With Our Parents, Who Have Been Dating For 45 Years
A few years ago, my sisters and I interviewed our parents for a new feature, which shared insights of married couples, on the wedding website Snippet and Ink. Below is their interview, in its entirety,...
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Guest Blogger AB on Fresh Off the Boat: So Fresh and So Clean
ABC just premiered a light-hearted comedy about a young Taiwanese American boy trying to make his way through the mean streets of Orlando and the racial politics of the middle school cafeteria. Based...
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Live Long & Prosper, Mr. Leonard Nimoy
1. My first playmate in Saudi Arabia, a boy named A., left bitemarks on my wrist; the circle of indents looked like a watch, according to our moms. But, we got along fine, apparently, running around...
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