And The School Year Wraps Up

Victoria-Riza 6/1/23 Victoria-Riza 6/1/23

And The School Year Wraps Up

This was the first normal-feeling school year since the pandemic. We stopped wearing masks, I volunteered more at my kid’s school, and summer camps have been added to my schedule. I’m finally experiencing the normalcy of parenting elementary-age kids.

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Hey Monday.

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This top is telling me to have a picnic. But I’m in a watch TV all weekend mood.

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Cue aloofness and a smize.

There is a kind of magic that happens when loved ones gather with the whole hearted intent to eat good food. It is the kind of joy that I have known throughout my Filipino upbringing. Multiple generations would gather with karaoke in one room and the

A new #colorfitpalette (hey it’s been a while) and a new post on the blog with some Friday ramblings. Link in bio.

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Today is complicated.

As I watch fireworks with my kids and enjoy a very American meal of steak, potato chips, baked beans, and rootbeer floats I will have Langston Hughes’ words in my heart,

“I am the immigrant clutching the hope I se

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for that.

These words by Toni Morrison have been on my mind. They c