a family doctor and mother writing about health, home, and everything in between
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Twenty-seven years of teaching, a screen that will not look back, and the one thing I thought I had learned I asked them to turn on their cameras three times. The third time I said “please”, which I do not usually have to say. Then I waited, the way you wait when you are sure something is about to happen.
Continue reading →Super DokAugust 29, 2026 · Health
Creams work on the surface. A face ages underneath it. Skin is the only organ you can watch grow old. That is probably why we treat aging as a surface problem, and why the shelf in the bathroom keeps getting longer.
August 27, 2026 · Family
What I taught my children about studying, starting from the week they entered school I taught my children how to study before they had anything worth studying.
August 25, 2026 · Food
Three weeks of rain, a word I made up, and the small tilapia I dry in the sun There has been no sun for three weeks, and so there has been no tilanggit.
Super DokAugust 22, 2026 · Health
Why the gut microbiome matters, what it wants from your plate, and what quietly starves it If you count all the cells in a person, roughly half turn out to be bacteria, most of them living in the gut.
August 21, 2026 · Food
A morning harvest, a freezer full of pesto, and everything else a basil plant will give you I cut the basil this morning, before the sun came up.
August 17, 2026 · Food
Advantages, drawbacks, pairings, and what it actually does to your gut microbiome Very few foods on a dinner table are still alive. Kimchi is one of them.
2006
Super Dok · September 4, 2006
This is lemongrass in the photo. We grow them in our backyard so that it is very easy to harvest whenever we need it for cooking.
2008
Super Dok · September 1, 2008
(I'm so glad our internet connection is back and I can blog at home.) Our action was met with rejection on his part. He decided not to come anymore on Saturdays for follow ups.
2008
Super Dok · September 2, 2008
Getting and maintaining maids are some of the domestic problems most mothers have. My sister is not an exception. She changes maids almost every month, and finding a new one always means trouble.