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Two tales from World War II: The fall and rise of Japan (First of 2 parts)
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese people heard their Emperor Hirohito’s voice for the first time in a radio broadcast. The Emperor announced to his people of Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender.
An English translation of the Emperor’s surrender speech was published by the Nippon...
We should be dancing, yeah
Now that a week’s worth of news cycles has passed, the matter of Mocha Uson’s federalism-inspired choreography can be discussed rationally. At least that is my hope, because that is what the subject begs—a rational discussion. Therein, however, lies the problem. Federalism, as...
In celebration of the children of solitude
*Inspired by a piece written by Donald Hall in the New Yorker magazine titled “Between Solitude and Loneliness”
Some look at a tree and see a harvest of fruits. I once stared at a dead mabolo, in the middle of the night, and saw...
The talk
What am I doing wrong?
In a few weeks, I will be turning 51 and have been conversing with God nightly for almost as long. Nightly prayers are a habit drilled into me and my brother and sister by our grandparents; at first, were...
Play for Goals
Mens sana, in corpore sano.
Few Filipino children would know what these words mean, but for good friends Chris Thomas and Quintin Pastrana, it was a call to action.
Quintin says, “Reading saved my life.” Chris says, “Football saved my life.”
Both stories are true. Both...
In excelsis deo
The election of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the new Speaker of the House proves that the Philippines is no longer in remission. She is on the last of her three consecutive terms as a member of the House of Representatives representing the second district...
