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Interact with Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
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Last On: Dec 24, 2008 - 8:28 AM
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Member Since:
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April 7, 2008
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Location:
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Netherlands
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ShoutLife Address:
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shoutlife.com/rcloenenruiz
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Genre:
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Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Primary Publishers:
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OMF Lit Philippines, DoubleEdged Publishing
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Influences:
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The Bible, C.S.Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mervyn Peake, Robert Frost, Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, Jose Rizal, Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano, F.Sionil Jose, Luisa Igloria, Eileen Tabios, Mark Young, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Robert Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, Charles Swindoll, Oswald Chambers
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Books, Reading, Writing, Poetry, Art (more an admirer than a practitioner), Children, Music, Architecture
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I enjoy all sorts of music, and am open to every style.
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I've read a lot of books all over the spectrum. Here are some of my favorites: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in A Time of Cholera, What we talk about when we talk about love, Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God, Shriek: Afterword, Trill and Mordent, The Secret Life of Punctuations, Asimov's works, The Great Divorce, The Beauty Myth, The Old Man and the Sea, Noli Me Tangere, The Gormenghast trilogy, Five Princes of Amber
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La Vita e Belle, Grave of the Butterflies, Peace Child , Jesus
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Gift (2008)
Here's what Jeanne Eddy says about Gift:
"This tension-filled, goosebump-inducing tale gives new meaning to our fear of things that go bump in the night."
You'll need to subscribe to Flash Me Magazine in order to read the whole story.
Buy Gift Online
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Rituals of Grief (2008)
Bugan's husband has died, a warrior lost on the field; and for seven days, she mourns. But Bugan must pause in her mourning after that, because she, as wife, must now defend her husband's body from the eater of flesh, must enter a lonely cave and leave her children, and must dream his death dream with him in the dark.
Free-to-read in the archives at Reflection's Edge
Buy Rituals of Grief Online
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Boy in the Bush (2007)
Deep in the mountain villages of the Philippines, a boy must make his choice. Based on true events.
Published by TeenAge Magazine, this piece is free-to-read.
Buy Boy in the Bush Online
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Hope Away From Home by Evelyn Miranda Feliciano with Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (2007)
With the story of Ruth as foundation, Evelyn Miranda-Feliciano writes about the lives of Overseas Filipino Workers. Excerpts from Rochita Loenen-Ruiz's poetic memoir provide an insight into the lives of Filipinas married to foreigners.
Buy Hope Away From Home by Evelyn Miranda Feliciano with Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Online
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Six Events in a Love Story (2007)
A unique fairy tale romance, I've been told this short story also tackles the issue of prejudice. One of my own personal favorites, you'll need to subscribe to Byzarium in order to read the story.
Buy Six Events in a Love Story Online
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Dark Angel, Benigno in Distant Passages volume one (2005)
Dark Angel, Benigno was first published on The Sword Review in 2005. The story itself is still available for free reading in The Sword Review archives.
Buy Dark Angel, Benigno in Distant Passages volume one Online
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Lakay (1990)
My first published short story. Lakay was published in Philippine Panorama which is the Sunday supplement of the national newspaper Bulletin Today. This was the story that launched me on my writing journey.
It´s available for free at the aylad archives which was the first group I joined on the internet. The group is defunct, but this story and another story I wrote in the same year are still in archive.
Buy Lakay Online
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About Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
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I am a Filipina writer living in The Netherlands. My work has been published in a variety of online and print publications both abroad as well as in my home country, The Philippines.
I read and edit submissions for Haruah:Breath of Inspiration (http://www.haruah.com), write a regular Authors and Books column for Munting Nayon(the Dutch-Filipino publication) and write columns for DoubleEdged Publishing.
My poetry and short stories have been published in literary and mainstream publications as well as in speculative fiction publications. In 2007, OMF Lit Philippines released a book that includes excerpts from my poetic memoir. The book (Hope Away from Home) has already sold out and gone into second printing. I am currently working on a book that recounts the life of a tribal missionary in the Philippines.
I am an active member and volunteer of Bayanihan (a support center for Philippine Women in the Netherlands), I am also a sunday school teacher at my local church.
To support my literary habit, I give piano and voice lessons to the musically-inclined.
I have two beautiful sons. My eldest is a budding eight year old writer. My youngest is a beautiful surprise gift from God.
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christmas thoughts
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12/24/2008 - 8:25 AM
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At the entrance to the supermarket
the streetlady sells
papers watermarked
from
yesterday's rains.
I think of
how the
distance
between
me and
this homeless woman
is a matter
of simple
economics.
It
could easily
have been...
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December Update
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12/22/2008 - 3:15 PM
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Samuel is long past the two naptimes a day stage, and this means that life has gotten quite busy and I barely have the time to sit down and update blogs like these. Most of my online appearance is limited to updating Haruah (http://www.haruah.com), c...
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updating
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9/22/2008 - 2:19 PM
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It's been quite busy over here. One of our nephews got married (wedding), good friends of ours celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, and there were several birthdays. Before all these happened, we did take a break and spent a week by the sea. ...
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6/20/2008 - 10:25 AM
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Our Children's Workers course is over, and I got a grade of 9.3 during the final exams. As Sunday School season draws to a close, I'm already making plans for next season. I've been asked to go on as team leader for children in the ages 8-10 years o...
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challenges and how God changes us through them
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4/10/2008 - 3:21 PM
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Our 10 euro project has raised quite a lot of interest. We've been receiving donations of goods and people are going to be there either on Monday morning when we hold the sale or on Tuesday evening (as we've decided to prolong the sale for those who...
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