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COVID quarantines, the second time around
This essay is one of many written during a Memoir Writing workshop at Sunshine Place under the mentorship of Dr. Oscar Peñaranda, a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas awardee. An educator, author, and advocate of Filipino-American studies, Dr. Peñaranda’s work includes “Seasons by...
Stepping out while staying in
“The times they are a-changin,’ come gather round people, wherever you roam...”
Bob Dylan
No doubt those lyrics of Bob Dylan were progressive and attuned to the zeitgeist of 1960s America. Yet poetically inspiring as they were back then, its context in the age...
My Tears Still Flow
Our house in Provident Village, Marikina City, was first occupied by my son Kim, who was then studying Industrial Engineering at the Ateneo. He stayed there for four years while my husband Willie and I could not yet settle down there, but where...
“Auntie Olga”
This essay is the first of many written during a Memoir Writing workshop at Sunshine Place under the mentorship of Dr. Oscar Peñaranda, a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas awardee. An educator, author, and advocate of Filipino-American studies, Dr. Peñaranda’s work includes “Seasons...
A NEVER ENDING STORY: Lumads of Mindanao & their fight to keep their ancestral land
From 19 October to 02 November 2015, the Philippines Graphic ran a three-part feature on the Manobos of Mindanao. Below is the COMPLETE SERIES
PART 1: "I am Roland Dalin, Talaingod, Manobo"October 19, 2015
On the Talaingod side of the majestic 12,600 square-kilometer Pantaron Mountains,...
Miranda bombing: Beyond the scars
Fifty years ago, on the night of Aug. 21, 1971, two grenades were lobbed at a Liberal Party rally at Manila’s iconic Plaza Miranda, killing nine people and nearly wiping out the then-opposition’s top guns.
Among the wounded: Jovito Salonga, who would become the...
