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The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax a la Yoda, who is probably the wisest mentor in nine galaxies. Expressed normally, the statement would not have made...

Young and (politically) woke by Karl Patrick Wilfred M. Suyat

The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in a society, especially one that's quickly developing such as ours. Yet the irony of the times is that majority...

The donor by Louse Ann Maca

The boy who left was not the boy who came back. As I looked at him, I remember that April night when he took me to the town's plaza to watch the annual salubong. The intensity of it all, the karosa holding Jesus and...

Book hunter and epic poet: Cirilo F. Bautista by Ramil Digal Gulle

Poet Cirilo F. Bautista, way back in 1991, taught me his method of hunting books at a second hand bookshop. As we walked from the Siliman University campus to the bookshop outside the university grounds, he told me, “Tingnan natin sino sa atin ang...

You better work by Marie Yuvienco

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its provisions virtually a re-hash of pertinent sections of the Labor Code.  Contractual employees who had pinned their hopes of...

The fox and the pitbull by Marie Yuvienco

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of a 71-year-old Australian nun.  Patricia Fox, a superior of the Notre Dame de Sion who has been living in...

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Lolo

The essay was written four days before the author succumbed to a massive stroke. This story, about his grandfather, is his last essay Before sunrise,...

V of the D

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. If you’re single, this probably is just another day for you or at least the day you’ll...

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...

Zambales revives birthday tribute for seniors

IBA, Zambales — For one day each year, senior citizens in this province get the recognition they deserve when the provincial government lavish upon...