Unleashing Her Martha Stewart - My First Published Article in Working Mom

When I got married, I always have a stash of mommy magazines.  I thought they were helpful and for some reason I felt that my concerns were being heard because the magazines featured my current state of mind.  Probably because of magazine addiction, I imbibed the vibe.  The writer in me dreamed of writing something for magazines.  I pictured my name and my work being published.  But, it didn't happen.  And I didn't have the guts to present myself or my work to anyone.  Rejection phobia, you know.  So I just parked the dream in the deeper recesses of my mind.  Not forgetting it but preparing for it.

I put up this blog to document my mama adventures.  But I realized that on top of the "preservation", it also hones my writing skills.  When I joined an essay writing contest some months ago, I was just hoping to win an iPad for my daughter.  I won second, good enough for an iPod Touch. But it also paved the way for another dream to happen.

The managing editor of Working Mom, Leah Nemil-San Jose, apparently read my essay.  We knew each other way back in college.  She was an editor-in-chief at the Scholastican, St. Scholastica's College official paper, while I was a start-up literary writer.  Leah congratulated me for the win and told me that I should write for Working Mom. My heart leaped.  It was like my dream seeing a ray of sunlight for the first time.  I told her I have a blog and gave her my web address. To my delight she found some things interesting.  She told me to write about our do-it-yourself party ideas.  Which I did. And here it is... my first published article on the October issue of Working Mom, with Daphne Osena-Paez on the cover.  It's titled Unleashing her Martha Stewart.  It featured some of the details from the 3 parties we did for R and S - The Rainbow Sister Party, Sa Aming Bakuran Pool Party, and the Artsy Crafty Party.

I read somewhere that luck is a dividend of sweat.  The more you sweat, the luckier you get.  It's true, dreams do come true, but, it will never be just about luck.

May all your dreams come true.