
A Portrait of a Family
Many a time I meet interesting people in my travels and engage in substantial conversations with them. Some of the stories remain in tact in my feeble memory. This one particular encounter made me contemplate on Filipino family values and my take on raising children. In Transit Conversation On the bus on the way back to Tarlac, an elderly woman sat beside me. Her seat wasn’t even warm enough yet when she began interrogating me about my destination. “Are you Kapampangan?” I sa