This poem was written on a binder paper. There’s no title and there’s no date. If I had to guess, I wrote it when I was a junior or senior in high school because there are some parts I wrote in slang. I apologize right now. I do. I don’t even…I just…I don’t know what I […]
Dear Diary, I Wrote a Poem
While rummaging through my file of old journal entries on loose leaf papers, I came across some old church bulletins/Sunday service programs. They look like this: I guess now we know what I was doing when I should have been listening to the pastor đ (Sorry, Pastor). On the weekends, I’m going to do something […]
Dear Diary, My First Time on an Airplane
– Transcript – April 25, 1996 Dear Diary, USA! It’s a long time and I’m busy writing letters too. It’s neat to ride an airplane. But I don’t like take offs. So, this Tues, school time, *School is our school. 2 months only! Under Observation. Titingnan kung pwede kami sa higher grade at it’s bec. […]
Dear Diary, When I Grow Up
Transcript: 4-25-95 Dear Diary, I’m going to be grade 4, Cat’s gr. 3 & Isang’s Gr.1. You know when I grow up I want to be a doctor but I like art, singing, dancing & sometimes writing. I wish I know. End transcript. Don’t we all wish the same? Don’t we all wish we knew […]
Dear Diary, The Car Broke Down
January 7, 1995 Saturday Dear Diary, We were going to Navotas for facation. We borrowed the Pick-up bec. we will bring many things. Terrible! We had trouble w/ the Pick-up, it didn’t start. This is why. I had sinok, Mom & Dad found a Burger Machine & bought a coke for me. My sisters also […]
31 Days of Dear Diary
This October I’m going back. I’m diving into my diaries, journals, and prayer journals to visit the girl I once was. To find the parts of her that still exist today. To see how she’s changed. How she grew up. And mostly I’m looking for the fingerprints of God in my life. “Dear Diary,” were […]
God Does Not Wonder About You
I was writing in my prayer journal and asked God if He ever wonders about me, like how parents wonder about their children when they do something not so nice. Like how Sunday school teachers wonder about a usually well-mannered child who suddenly threw a tantrum or seemed to have been exchanged for a doppelganger with […]
