by Alex | Feb 15, 2026 | Parenting, Personal, Sports
Being a football parent has been quite taxing. I’m lucky enough to have the flexibility to duck out during the week to fetch my daughter after practice—which happens twice a week, assuming the schedule actually holds. But considering how fickle the school calendar can...
by Alex | Nov 26, 2025 | Life, Personal
It’s pretty sad that I’ve been putting up several of these obituaries for things already. I’m packing for an upcoming event this weekend. Since it needed a hotel stay, I grabbed my trusty toiletry kit from the cabinet. I opened it to check if its...
by Alex | Sep 13, 2025 | Personal, Politics, Sports
So… The kid finally scored her first competitive goal as part of their school’s grade school football/futsal varsity. Too bad all this daddy pride came with a dash of middle class guilt. This match day was for the DepEd Unit Meet for elementary...
by Alex | Jul 21, 2024 | Personal, Sports
I was never the athlete. As a kid, I was short, stubby, and had lungs that could barely hold in a couple of puffs of air. I liked sports but sports never liked me. But if there was a sport in which I displayed any semblance of schoolyard competence, it would be...
by Alex | Jan 10, 2019 | Personal
So I’ve been remiss writing end-of-year recaps for a couple of year now in this long-forgotten blog. It’s 2019 and we’re almost closing out the 2010’s. I’m in my mid-30s now. I’m almost legitimately qualified to have my mid-life...
by Alex | Oct 5, 2016 | Personal
Paying tribute to friends and mentors who have passed never gets easier and yet I write another one now. I am greatly saddened by the passing of one of my mentors – Prof. May Flores. She passed on last Saturday after years of health problems. She will most...
