Pinay Desert Dweller

I can’t think of a good reason why I never posted in 2019. Believe me, I have all these blog post introductions running through my head at bedtime. They keep me awake long enough for me to feel...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/3933/

Mom, you mean to say you’re half a century already? Hmmm. Yes, my dear. Life happens. One grows old. So. That a year has passed since my last book review says something about my life. And. It�...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/the-struggle-is-real/

  “… I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go, that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert.” Susan Cain, a...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/quiet/

So. It was the Philippines’ Independence Day yesterday. And. My friends and I engaged in some traditional Filipino past time of yesteryears. But first, a confession: I’m a city girl born and ...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/independence-day-activity-2017/

My TBR book pile keeps on growing. Frankly, I don’t know when or if it will ever be reduced to a manageable stack. Sigh … it’s so hard to read several books at the same time. Anyway, right ...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/this-week-im-reading-2/

Note: Phrases in bold link to a webpage. I have never met a Duterte supporter who does not believe that the end justifies the means. That, together with Elizabeth Kolbert’s Why Facts Don’t Ch...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/duterte-again/

Well. I’m flummoxed. Because. I can’t decide whether the problem is Me – seems like I can’t get into fiction nowadays – or Kate Atkinson’s novel that won the 2013 Costa Book Awards. A...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/book-review-life-after-life/

Who doesn’t miss Jollibee’s Chickenjoy while living abroad?

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/moments-december-2017/

I’ve still got an unfinished post about my book haul for 2016. But. I just couldn’t resist sharing about my Christmas Eve book haul. Yup! Living in a desert town, it’s a treat whenever I ge...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/christmas-eve-2016-book-haul/

We didn’t vacation in the Philippines this year. Heck, we wouldn’t have gone back, either, had Binay won. So now it’s near Christmas and Filipino food is making me homesick for the dishes t...

https://pinaydesertdweller.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/food-trips-past-and-present/