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In search of heroes
Numerous researches and academic studies on heroes and heroism have resulted in a range of meanings for the word “hero.”
As cited in Attributes and Applications of Heroes: A Brief History of Lay and Academic Perspectives by Elaine L. Kinsella, Timothy D. Ritchie, and...
A year after my daughter’s death
I –Friday, Bloody, Friday — The week she died was ominous. I had a sudden attack of arthritis and I couldn’t move without help. Suddenly I had to use a cane. Something ailed me but I refused to see a doctor. For one,...
12 years later, revisiting Marcel
The years snap back to the past like a terribly stretched rubber band suddenly released to hit the wrist. It’s been 12 years, Marcel. Twelve years since I recounted how they forcibly made you disappear in 1985.
It was in 2010 when I first...
From Presidents to common folk: Tales from the piano
Whatever the pianists' individual differences in taste, grooming and temperament, no one can deny that in terms of international exposure, the Philippines has been much luckier with pianos than with musical artists playing other instruments
I met the country’s foremost pianist Cecile Licad in...
Susan Roces: 80 years of a life & memories of a movie icon
A few hours before deadline, I am watching FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano where Susan Roces was known as Lola Flora, the barangay captain.
For close to seven years, she was part of this teleserye. Almost always, I was invited in the yearly anniversaries.
She would muse...
Daddy, can you please buy me time?
Among the most iconic Filipino images of fathers are those showing our overseas Filipino workers coming home from, or leaving for, foreign shores to take on jobs for a better future for their families. And more often than not, beyond the hugs and...
