Thing I’m grateful for, week 1/52

by Jody Alarva // January 12, 2021 // No Comments

I will try and keep this up, and not be too dramatic about it. I am approaching this year with a ton of caution and hope. So here are a few things I’m grateful for the week for: 1. This... Continue reading →

You light up my life

by Jody Alarva // December 15, 2020 // No Comments

I have been wanting to get one of these since we saw them more than 5 years ago. Thank goodness for small favors (and the randomness of shopee) that we’re now able to have this on the car, it feels... Continue reading →

Today has been hard. Here’s a bun photo to lighten today’s load.

by Jody Alarva // October 30, 2020 // No Comments

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Dear Nanay

by Jody Alarva // October 19, 2020 // No Comments

Dear Nanay, It looks like we’re going to miss All Saint’s weekend and your second death anniversary prayer/food gathering with the family. And Christmas. This is going to be my first Christmas without the rest of the family, as we’re... Continue reading →

I still don’t know what to say

by Jody Alarva // October 15, 2020 // No Comments

What can we say after most of a year being in lockdown? The fear that it will be even longer still? The uncertainty of what we face in still unprecedented times? So I’ve been trying to get out of being... Continue reading →

I think you should listen to Florence and the Machine’s Rabbit Heart today

by Jody Alarva // August 27, 2020 // No Comments

Anyone who’s met me knows I am a crazy rabbit lady (my friend Marian Jo has mocked up collages even) but this is a whole different thing. I have been working by myself a lot, and when you work nights,... Continue reading →

I don’t know what to say.

by Jody Alarva // July 14, 2020 // No Comments

We’re all living in a dystopian world, and we’re all having to deal with this apart from the people we’re living with. Somehow it doesn’t feel real. What’s happening to everyone in the world right now. And while I can... Continue reading →

Of octopuses and grade school

by Jody Alarva // March 10, 2020 // No Comments

There is a running joke between my grade school friends and I, that we all used to be pogi, and now we’ve grown out of it. It’s always jarring looking at photos of us from the time, where nobody had... Continue reading →

I think you should listen to Bazzi’s Paradise today

by Jody Alarva // March 5, 2020 // No Comments

Sometimes you just need to unwind, and I need to unwind. It’s a shame I gave up alcohol and soda for the next month, but that doesn’t mean that I still can’t have fun yeah? But yes, I do not... Continue reading →

I think you should listen to Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” today

by Jody Alarva // March 4, 2020 // No Comments

I have been holding in rage all day, and really, it’s misplaced, and like what I’ve just been told by my sister and mother, I really shouldn’t pour it on others. So I will listen to moody songs and angry... Continue reading →

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