Her heart finally gave up at 4AM today. After being rushed to the ICU two days ago, Tara Santelices, 23 passed away at The Medical City due to cardiac arrest. It has been almost a year-long struggle for Tara and her family - parents, Larry and Anne; her..
Topics: tara santelices

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H ope and love were so thick the afternoon I entered Tara Santelices bright green bedroom. “It is the one thing we hold on to, and so we cannot let it go,” Larry Santelices, Tara’s father, tells me that rainy day I came to visit. Outside, the...
Topics: Family, Inspiration, tara santelices

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A wonderful gift was given to me this year and I have my Heavenly Father to thank for it. For many years I was searching for my father whom I lost when I was 16. This year, that search has been put to rest. And on this day, I remember him with fondness...
Topics: Family, father's day

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I entered my teen years in the late seventies. A period which one could probably qualify as the golden age of OPM (Original Pilipino Music). It's been raining giant cats and dogs in Manila and I found myself searching for the songs that I used to...
Topics: Midlife Musings

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All this talk about sex, lies and videotapes hogging the news on a daily basis was enough to get parents like myself paranoid about the values or attitudes we teach our children regarding healthy sexuality. But how do you protect one's child from...
Topics: parenting, Roots and Wings

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