Over our dinner,my children questioned me,”So,daddy, why then did you come to America?”
My children are growing and developing physically, intellectually, socially,emotionally,politically and I guess they are searching for owns identities of being Americans or Filipino.I need to be very careful with my answers and I come to think that the issues are especially thorny because they move through the realms of faith and belief, I should answer them honestly and with brevity — without delving into extraneous information that might confuse them.I know they ask me this question because they are curious. (more…)