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It’s my 100th Blog Post! Let’s Talk About the Future

For the first time in several months, we got some rain in La Herradura yesterday and I was freezing. It was only 14ºC outside. But when I discovered that I have already written 99 articles in this blog, I felt warm in my heart. I felt immense gratitude and decided that my post 100 should […]

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Friendship and Money

While scrolling on my Facebook feeds today, I came across some of my friends’ updates telling the world how pissed off they are regarding people who didn’t pay back private loans. I remembered that a friend of mine borrowed some money from me years ago and I wondered what she would do if I kindly […]

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Flashback to Real Estate Possibilities

Just across the street from our flat here in La Herradura, there is a real estate office and next to it a furniture shop. Now and then, when I sit at the balcony and watch customers coming and going, my thoughts fly back to my time working in real estate in my hometown where I […]

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Music and the Mysteries of the Universe

In the Philippines, classical music is considered to be an upper-class phenomenon and it’s hard for the common man to relate to it. I’m brought up as most Filipinos: drenched in pop music. When I arrived in Spain, my knowledge of the great classical music tradition in Europe was almost none. A friend of my […]

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The Hidden Voices of Alcoholism

Alcoholism was a taboo topic for me until I read a book titled Cheers (The Hidden Voices of Alcoholism) by Renate van Nijen. The book targets the lives of alcoholics as told by themselves, people working with them, and the ones who are affected like families and friends. I have decided to write about the […]

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President of the Philippines: What Kind of Man is He?

Interview with my Norwegian Husband about President Duterte President Duterte’s rough and direct way of talking makes dumbfounding headlines all over the world, and people are asking; what kind of mad man has become president in the Philippines? My Norwegian husband knows the Philippines well and he wrote an article about Duterte, “The Shadow of […]