Summary Our three professional children (Mikhail Robert, 37, computer engineer; Michael Angelo Jr, 32, architect;…
Category: Family, Friends & Relationships
On Sharing of Toothbrush: Ultimate Expression of a Couple’s Comfort Level?
Summary Couples do share many personal items that include clothes, foot wears, kitchen utensils, mobile…
ON ‘QUEEN SACRIFICE’ MOVE: AND THE TALE OF MESSY DINING TABLE AND DIRTY DISHES
ON ‘QUEEN SACRIFICE’ MOVE: AND THE TALE OF MESSY DINING TABLE AND DIRTY DISHES Summary…
On Airport Pick-Up and Dining Out of Children: Relationship Indicators with Overseas Friends?
Summary What kind of hospitable gestures would your intimate foreign friends extend to your children…
On ‘Overruling’ Oriental Wives and their ‘Surrendering’ Husbands: Close Encounters in the Midst of Pandemic
Summary The traditional dominance of Oriental husbands seems to be fading fast. Their wives are…
Beyond 10,000 Daily Foot Steps: A Positive Health Consequence of COVID-19?
Summary If one walks 10,000 steps per day, that person could be burning enough calories…
On Homecomings and Family Reunions: A Reminiscence
Due to job and other circumstances, members of a once intact family separate to pursue their own ways. During our college days starting in 1977, my brother and I always look forward to our planned family reunions every Christmas and/or summer break. Once we started working in 1981, though, our reunions became less frequent. It even became rarer when our late father passed away in 1996. Our unexpected and unannounced family gathering a year later is something unique among all other reunions – and indeed something to reminisce.