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by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - October 6, 2002 - 12:00am

I love housework. When I lived abroad, my weekends were almost always dedicated to it: laundry (both machine and handwash), major bathroom scrubbing and a vacuum job to end all vacuum jobs. And that’s not counting...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - September 22, 2002 - 12:00am

Several times this week I was asked if I was the jealous type. I’m not. I’ve never been. If there’s reason to be jealous, I don’t waste my time on it. I go straight to anger or frank discussion....

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - September 15, 2002 - 12:00am

Every woman must have her sacred space. If you are a mother, it is almost impossible to have chunks of time alone, no matter how urgent your need. I have always needed space, lots of it, and so I try to create it...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - September 1, 2002 - 12:00am

A girlfriend has been down in the dumps lately. She’s seeing someone with whom she shares a great intellectual connection and, for a while there, something she hoped was a soul connection. But lately all she...

Cosmopolitan Moments

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - August 25, 2002 - 12:00am

Last week, a friend mentioned a buddy he thought his former classmates might learn a thing or two from. He said the guy could actually have friendly dinners with his ex and current wife–together. I laughed....

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - August 18, 2002 - 12:00am

People have been commenting on my "feminist" views lately. Funny thing is, I don’t consider myself feminist at all. Maybe it’s because the word "feminist" conjures up an angry, bitter,...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - August 11, 2002 - 12:00am

In the movie Unfaithful, Diane Lane and Richard Gere play a happily married couple who live an idyllic suburban life. One violently windy day, after shopping for their only son’s eighth-year birthday party,...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - July 28, 2002 - 12:00am

How do you let go of someone and not look back? This question popped up in my mailbox right when I had decided to stop writing about relationships, heartbreak and ache, or anything about love which I probably know...

When a woman becomes cold?

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - July 21, 2002 - 12:00am

The problem with you," the man told his wife, "is that you are cold. Do you really think I like coming home to that?" It was hissed rather than said and its venom burned every heart in the room. As...

Healing The Planet

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - June 23, 2002 - 12:00am

Last weekend, as we made our way to the bookstore, my husband shook his head at the number of people milling about the mall. He said something about how the mall had become The Great Weekend Family Hangout. I pointed...

The art of leaving friends

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - June 16, 2002 - 12:00am

I’ve been getting a lot of mail from people who seem to be in the midst of disintegrating alliances. Not romantic relationships this time, but garden variety friendships. Yes, Virginia, been there myself. I...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - June 2, 2002 - 12:00am

A pregnant friend recently e-mailed news of a food binge – two scoops of green tea ice cream. Huh? When I was pregnant, my binges ran the size of densely populated villages. Though her little confession made...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - May 26, 2002 - 12:00am

How do you tell your lover it’s over, there’s someone else, you don’t love him anymore, time is up, the fat lady has sung? This question, or something like it, came into my mailbox recently. Hhhhmm....

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - May 12, 2002 - 12:00am

I spend a lot of time emailing and texting. At first glance, these electronic devices seem to be the best inventions of our time, but zoom in and they start to look like frighteningly inhuman substitutes for communication....

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - May 5, 2002 - 12:00am

We moved into our dream house two years ago. I literally saw this house grow from lot to home. Every week, I came to the construction site to meet with architects, designers, all kinds of contractors just to make...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - April 21, 2002 - 12:00am

A friend is hopelessly smitten with a man who won’t give her the time of day. Yet the more stone-like and aloof his behavior, the more certain she is of their shared destiny. Every effort comes from her–phone...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - March 24, 2002 - 12:00am

I have a girlfriend who is married to an insanely jealous man. One little hello to an old, male college buddy sets off his inner gorilla–flaring nostrils, scary teeth, matted hair, clenched fists, sporadic...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - March 17, 2002 - 12:00am

Last August, while on vacation, I received a handwritten letter from a friend. Wow, I thought, just like the old days. (Ooh...a stamp!) He could have e-mailed me but he knew, without being told, that an actual letter...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - March 10, 2002 - 12:00am

My baby, Andres, turned one last week. When I carried him that morning, I buried my nose and lips into his warm, baby-moist neck and inhaled. Is there a sweeter scent in the world? We hugged and kissed him; whispered...

by BREATHING SPACE by Panjee Tapales-Lopez - March 3, 2002 - 12:00am

I recently had lunch with a girlfriend whose three-year relationship seemed headed for a split. "It’s going nowhere," she sighed. "Do you mean you want him to marry you?" I asked, already...

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