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ABOVE PHOTO: Cindy Valenzuela had a close call with the COVID-19 virus. Cindy is the granddaughter of Dr. Pio Valenzuela, hero of the Philippine...

It was hidden for ages together with other stuff dumped in the utility room of our family home and forgotten, probably rusting—my aunt’s old...

(Isang Yugtong Monologo)* Ilang Paliwanag:     Ang monologo ay may tratong daloy ng kamalayan (stream of consciousness); samakatwid, walang pagdama sa oras, panahon o tagpuan ang...

Leona Florentino had a very brief life.  She just lived for 35 years, and had written only a handful of poems.  However, during her...

At 25, Marvin Jeffrey P. Tiu Lim, the youngest child of Mega Global Corp founder and CEO William Tiu Lim, was well into successfully...

In these times overshadowed by COVID-19-related doom and gloom, it is a welcome respite to look back into my own past from 1994 to...

Like a flawlessly solved puzzle, everything fell into place for Carmen Linda Macasil-Atayde by the time she reached the age of 25. In 1965, at...

She was one of the thousands of college students stranded in their campuses when the Enhanced Community Quarantine was imposed throughout Luzon.  “Sir, it was...

Her life has gone through a world war, the martial law years, show business, and working closely with cops, soldiers, and high officials in the military. But almost 80 years and two careers later, director Heidi Sison still professes she has not been witness to any atrocity or decadence of any kind.

It was supposed to be a surprise attack on a police station. The plan was to take the police officers unawares by hitting them...