“Finding the Vagina Warrior” in the Filipina Woman

The Stimulant: When I auditioned and was selected to deliver a monologue in the Filipina Women’s Network production of “The Vagina Monologues” or TVM, which had its first San Francisco Bay Area performance to a sold-out crowd at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on March 30, 2004, my “work & life” seeds with “Women […]

How I Stopped Smoking (after 24 years)

Last week, one of my nieces in the Philippines was sharing her thoughts about smoking in her myspace.com account. It was the first time I encountered her blog so I was quite excited to share my experiences about “how to stop smoking.” I also thought it would be a good idea to tell my story […]