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Can you define, for me, the essay?
I have, more than once dreamt, of the chance to reach out to as many students and teachers of writing as possible, be that in journalism or literature. I feel every writer of some experience must hold fast to this responsibility of sharing...
Criminal liability means adult responsibility
A caveat: I’m no lawyer. As a writer, I work mainly along the neighborhood of logic. And logic tells me that the bill lowering the age of criminal liability can have unintended consequences.
Legal and societal perception as to what a child is according...
Twin blasts at Jolo Cathedral leave 21 dead, dozens wounded
Twenty-one people dead. Ninety-seven injured. That was the toll when two bombs exploded at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo on July 27.
The twin explosions occurred about a few minutes apart, survivors said. The first explosion took place inside...
Roel’s Bookshop and the Sealed Letter
One by one, she unpacked the books from the box.
It was not more than an hour ago that I arrived at the bookshop. Though it took around two hours of travel from Las Piñas, it is always worth the price I pay—for the...
Lack of psychologists in gov’t hospitals hampers healing of abused children
(First of two parts)
Ella (not her real name) was brought to the child protection unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) after a jeepney driver raped her when she was five years old. She was abused inside the jeepney where she and her...
A Tarot of Philippine history (Part 2)
The Tarot de Marseilles, the oldest deck in 15th century Italy, slipped into the Philippines in the 18th century, most likely in gamblers’ hands. It didn’t take long to use it for divination.
True to its ancient babaylan culture, divination in the Philippines is...
