Joy Page Manuel

Joy Page Manuel is a blogger, stay-at-home mom and full-time over-analyzer. She was born and raised in the Philippines, but is now living in Tennessee. She served as professor of Sociology in university for 7 years prior to her 2004 migration to the U.S. In that past life, she was also a contributing author to three academic publications in the Philippines. Her blog was voted VoiceBoks Top Mom Blog of 2013. She also has several featured member posts at Blogher and also blogs at the Huffington Post. Joy writes about all her angst as a mother, migrant and hopeless romantic on her site Catharsis.

This essay originally appeared on Catharsis but has been updated for this publication. It would have been the perfect weekend getaway. We were less than four hours away from home and in the heart of an interesting, diverse city. The drive was stress-free, everyone was in a good mood and our hotel room was perfect. …

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