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How do you balance work and home life? I was born in a time when the work and home life balance was found in the gender roles. My father went to work, sometimes holding down two or three jobs at a time, while my mother mother stayed home with their six children. With the divorce,…
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When I was a child, we had a telephone that you could only use to talk. It sat on a desk near to where it was connected to the wall. You spoke into the handset and dialed the number from the base. We would say the phone is ringing. It had a bell. The same…
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Everyday is someone’s birthday. Many someone’s. With a world population of nearly 8 billion people, one day has an average of nearly 22,000,000 birthdays. 22,000,000. That’s a lot of cake and ice cream. That would be like everyone in the entire state of Florida all having the same birthday. 22,000,000 million birthday cakes all lit…
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I once told a friend of mine about how, when I was a young child, someone asked me my race in an indelicate way. “What are you?” he asked. “Filipino,” I answered. “What’s that?” he responded. After sharing this anecdote with my friend, she apologized for that experience. “I’m sorry that happened to you.” At…
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By my own standards, I believe I have lived a long life. I am older than my mother ever got to be. I remain active, in mind, body, and spirit. I am at peace in my day to day life and occasionally will attempt an endeavor that challenges my view of the world I inhabit.…
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Using someone’s skin color as a description is fine. Using someone’s skin color as a definition is racism. The benevolence of the one percenters isn’t benevolent at all. The acts are the mechanism by which they control the progress and direction of society as a whole. The most effective way an authoritarian maintains control is…
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Tales from long ago History in the present Mabuhay matters Elegant in prose graceful stride to take her place among the heavens Hold firm my life right a man’s world of dominance Steadfast in my worth Do not trust the reflection in the mirror. That is you seeing you. Better to find your reflection in…
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I do not live or work in Hollywood. Nothing about my life is dependent on the most recognizable product of Hollywood. But I am a consumer of that product, although I have decreased that usage in recent months, mostly because of the pointedly painful bias against women. In both product and production. This is not…
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I am the daughter of an immigrant from The Philippines and the granddaughter of Polish immigrants. My deepest roots run far from the country of my birth. I am proud to be bi-racial. I am also proud to be a citizen by birth of the The United States. I am an American born in the…
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