Category: personal
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Rome wasn't built in a day
Tips for beginning calligraphers, from a beginner calligrapher. I swore that I would not buy new pens and inks until my calligraphy got better. I also figured I’d be kinder to myself and start with Roman lettering and calligraphic print instead of jumping into Copperplate. I used ye olde ‘Writing & Illuminating & Lettering’ to…
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Pen Love
Good writing is part craft, part distraction that isn’t facebook. I thought the distraction would be photography, then I discovered that the local bookstores carried brush pens for as low as PHP28. It started innocently enough. Doodle. “Oooh” and “aaah” at the brush strokes. Write a quote in script (and face the horror of finding…
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The Cat Comes Back
The goodbye I wrote for Mela was uploaded around two weeks from the time she disappeared. The day after it went live, Mela came back! She crawled in through my bedroom window, mewling, then made a run for her foodbowl. I could only gawk at her in disbelief. The following morning, I gave her a…
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Farewell, Melanoma
Written January 12, 2013. In the simplicity of your existence: grooming, cuddling, nibbles of food, then sleep; it’s easy to forget that pets – our babies – do grow up. In a way, some months ago when I realized that you’ve been with me for over 10 years – I prepared myself for a day…
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miiShots: Left Behind
Flowers left behind, or flowers left for someone who left? Who knows. Taken on January 16, 2012 with a Samsung Galaxy Y phone and Camera 360 app. Makati-Mandaluyong Bridge.