Through Her Eyes: Watching a Single Mom With ADHD, Bipolar Tendencies, and Impostor Syndrome Try to Stay Afloat
At first glance, Mia looked like she had it under control. She was 34, sharp-witted, and resourceful—always with her laptop open, coffee in hand, and a dozen mental tabs running all at once. To her colleagues, she was “resilient,” “strong,” even “a supermom.” But if you paid attention—really paid attention—you’d see something else in her […]
The Space Between Her and His Heart
He never talked about her. Not once. Not in passing, not in stories, not even accidentally. And that’s how she knew. When someone is truly nothing, you mention them freely. But when someone lives inside your heart—quietly, stubbornly, secretly—you protect that name like a wound that never healed. And he protected her. So she never asked. […]
Sarap Balikan: Growing Up with Fu Pei-mei on RPN 9
There’s a certain kind of nostalgia that only 90s kids will understand. The kind that smells like VHS tapes and electric fan breeze, that sounds like dial-up tones and station IDs on free TV. And tucked between the noise of cartoons and afternoon reruns was a quiet, underrated gem on RPN 9—“Fu Pei-mei’s Chinese Cooking Show.” […]