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by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - November 12, 2006 - 12:00am

This is an invitation, from me to you. To wrap your heart around the pastel mist of love, and remember how that feels, forever. I bid you, too, to conquer your dreams; to refresh and recharge in the blue...

The conspiracy of piggy banks and such

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - September 17, 2006 - 12:00am

I want it pretty, Mommy, with like this and like that and many pink pillows and pink sheets." My daughter, bright-eyed and excited, is telling me about her latest bright idea.

Wear your pearls while you clean

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - August 1, 2006 - 12:00am

When was the exact moment it happened? I can’t say. It was a gradual thing, a slow but steady build-up through the years. What I do remember was that the dawning was sparked by a fondant wedding cake,...

Grocery shopping made easy

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - September 12, 2004 - 12:00am

When I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be a good wife and mother. Call it a simple dream, but hey, that’s just me. Although the idea of a corporate job appealed to me at one point (more so because of...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - September 5, 2004 - 12:00am

You most probably have a basic kikay kit made up of products you have tried, tested, and loved enough to know they are for keeps. They are products that will make you pretty in a jiffy, products that upon application...

Let’s make this brief

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - August 15, 2004 - 12:00am

What went on during go-sees for Bench’s ‘Understatements’? Here’s a brief peek... I had never seen so many half-naked bodies parading before me at close range. Ever. Not even two years ago...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - July 18, 2004 - 12:00am

I conclude. Bacolod is fattening. Richard and I flew to this province in the South last weekend to participate in a fashion show for charity organized by the St. Scholastica Alumni Association. Sister Lucy Togle,...

Confessions of a hypochondriac

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - June 20, 2004 - 12:00am

When I was a little girl, my yaya had a ready explanation for every little ailment that came to pass. If I had fever, it was because I got rained on (never mind if it was just literally two drops of water from the...

Are you chicken?

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - June 22, 2003 - 12:00am

When was the last time you were seduced by the aroma of chicken barbecue as you drove through town with the car window rolled down? When was the last time you enjoyed a meal that simply hit home – delicious...

The truth about flea market shopping

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - June 15, 2003 - 12:00am

Everybody loves a bargain. Who doesn’t? Why else do malls get packed to the seams the moment they advertise a mall-wide sale – gee, that word alone makes our wallets open on their own. After all, what can...

All Smiles In The City Of Smiles

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - June 1, 2003 - 12:00am

Two Fridays ago, Tito Douglas Quijano, Richard and I flew to Bacolod upon the invitation of director Peque Gallaga who is now based there. Being involved in the Negros Summer Workshop in La Salle, Bacolod, he asked...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - May 25, 2003 - 12:00am

It all started with a bag that Cynthia, as a young mother and wife, loved and bought at first sight in Rustan’s way back in the late ’60s. It was imported from Italy, dainty, round and fully made of clear,...

Kids really do say the darndest things!

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - May 18, 2003 - 12:00am

By now, you probably have seen Juliana’s Baby Bench and Purefoods Hotdog ads being aired on TV. When the Bench ad concept was initially broached to us, Richard and I had no second thoughts. We immediately said...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - May 11, 2003 - 12:00am

Richard’s parents separated when he was about four years old. From that time on, he would live alternately in his mother’s or father’s home (who by then already had families of their own) until 1977...

Easter’s eggsciting!

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - April 20, 2003 - 12:00am

I remember my first Easter egg hunt. In Ormoc where I grew up, we observed all the Holy Week customs like visiting seven churches and making the stations of the cross but it was only in Cebu, in my maternal grandmother’s...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - April 13, 2003 - 12:00am

Where will you be during Holy Week? More importantly, what will you be doing? All too often, this holiday has been viewed by many as a happy time-off to go to the beach, to hie off to your favorite shopping destination...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - October 27, 2002 - 12:00am

My husband has been very busy lately. Since August he has been working practically every day. He tapes his TV soap on Tuesdays and Thursdays, shoots his upcoming movie the rest of the week, and hosts S-Files on...

Palibhasa Tsismis!

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - September 29, 2002 - 12:00am

If there were a downside to being famous it would be that famous people are magnets for gossip – ranging from harmless to malicious and everything else in between. Their larger-than-life personas spill over...

by LOVE LUCY By Lucy Gomez - August 4, 2002 - 12:00am

Do I get jealous? Even now, four years into my marriage, people still ask me that –friends, relatives, and strangers alike. No, it’s not a question that offends me and, depending on how close I am to the...

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