Reading Ruffolos

Super Plan 30

C.E.L. Ruffolo August 15, 2016 October 18, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

Written March 12, 2016 The calendar is not joking. It really is 2016. This year, I’m turning 30. Wow!

A fitting gift

C.E.L. Ruffolo August 8, 2016 August 31, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on August 6, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website.

Graduate school is tough.

The overconfident 2014 version of myself did not realize this. I was a mother to then one-year-old twins and the family was based in Guangzhou, China.

The original plan was to work on a communication-related master’s degree but as I was checking the different programs of the University of the Philippines Open University, my eyes got stuck in the Faculty of Education’s Language and Literacy program.Continue reading“A fitting gift”

The Month in Pictures: July State of Affairs

C.E.L. Ruffolo August 6, 2016 September 1, 2016 The Months in PicturesLeave a comment

Our family’s July state of affairs is along the theme of education. After 2.5 years of toiling for a graduate degree, I finally graduated last July 30 under the Language and Literacy program of the University of the Philippines Open University. Jeff and I went to the University of the …

Committed to me

C.E.L. Ruffolo August 1, 2016 October 18, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

Written March 21, 2016 I experimented a lot with the twins from the first day they were born until now that they’ve grown into fireballs (also known as toddlers). Most of my experiments have been about book exposure and improving their basic literacy knowledge, in which holding a book, the …

Book Review: Mindy is back

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 27, 2016 October 18, 2016 ReviewsLeave a comment

Mindy Kaling is back in print with Why Not Me?, a collection of personal stories and anecdotes that will make the regular mortals among us feel privileged that we have a good friend up in the Mount Olympus of America , otherwise known as Hollywood. In Why Not Me?, Kaling talks …

Joy and Elsie

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 25, 2016 August 31, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on print last July 23, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website. Joy and Elsie entered our lives a week after I gave birth …

Review: Crumley by night, Austen by day

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 20, 2016 October 18, 2016 ReviewsLeave a comment

James Crumley wrote a twisted short story on how one man attempted to educate a woman to create a sophisticated picture of his ideal couple life. The night did not end as planned, in the manner that he expected it to be at least. Crumley wrote crime stories in a …

Ginger is my bestfriend

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 18, 2016 October 18, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

Written February 28, 2016 I had lunch today with another adult and talked about grown-up issues. Boy, that felt good to hear myself use more words and longer sentences that were not just limited to “Nicholas, please don’t bite your sister” or “Antoinette, put the crayons back in the container …

Book Review: Salute to all Mamas (The Berenstain Bears: Mother’s Day Blessings)

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 13, 2016 October 18, 2016 ReviewsLeave a comment

This book arrived in our mailbox and immediately gave me that special May feeling brought about by the fact that I’m the mother to three cubs, er, children. In Mother’s Day Blessings, the new addition to The Berenstain Bear series, author Mike Berenstain presented he many different faces of mothers …

Letting Go

C.E.L. Ruffolo July 11, 2016 August 31, 2016 Raves & RantsLeave a comment

I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on July 9, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website. My twins – Nicholas and Antoinette – turned three on the first of July, …