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Time, the Cosmos, and Stephen Hawking
Please allow me to nerd this one out.
It was a rather sad week with the unexpected passing of English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge Stephen Hawking.
I was introduced to...
Offending onions
Have you ever seen anyone go bat-crazy because of words?
I know I have. It was a cool January afternoon when I first heard my sweet, adorable three-year-old daughter Likha breathe fire.
I was reading her a Cinderella story. In response to that scene where,...
A world without Gabo
Outside of the commonplace sexual trysts penned by Anaïs Nin and the gothic thrillers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón, I practically weaned myself on the heart-breaking tales of Gabriel García Márquez or Gabó, as he was fondly called.
As a hopeless romantic, I’ve always thought...
“To poke the eye of the President”
I recall meeting former President Fidel V. Ramos for the first time. Decades ago I was assigned by a lifestyle magazine editor to conduct an interview at the President’s home south of Metro Manila.
Strange how interviews with political top brass, Presidents in particular,...
Dunce Macabre: Living in the Age of the Ignoramus
Dunce. Noun. An individual slow at learning. A stupid person.
Reminds me of this cartoonish image of a boy, at once presumed disobedient or lacking in intellect, a bully for the most part, sitting in a corner while wearing a pointy hat resembling the...
Children and Politics: Where the rubber burns the road
Raising children: it’s not for the faint of heart.
To me, the most agonizing of parents’ responsibilities to their kids are not the steady string of expenses for food and education, or the seraphic patience one needs to inculcate values into their young lives,...
