Life's Little Pieces

I have been lonely ever since my husband left for his one-year stint abroad. Every night has been characterized by crying and countless messages that say "I miss you" and "Uwi ka na please" (please come home) when my husband and I chat on Facebook messenger. And a few days before Valentine's Day, I felt really down because we'd be celebrating our first Valentine's as a married couple apart. But I couldn't stay miserable, right? So on Valentine's Day, my husband and I just mad

It's funny how the universe works sometimes. PM and I have been waiting for us to be a married couple before we finally live together and go home to each other every night. But two weeks after we got married, he had to leave for a faculty exchange program abroad. We didn't get the chance to live and stay with each other before he left. It's ironic that when we finally got married, that was when we had to be apart. I can't find the words to express the intense loneliness that