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One Hundred Ways to Skin a Cat

There’s this hallowed chestnut in law which says that “what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.”  (It sounds more impressive in Latin, I can assure you, but we won’t get into that.)  It’s an all-purpose phrase which guards against plots to...

Of restless news and spews

Erratic would be an understatement to describe the days leading to this very moment, this tranquil, chilly January dawn moment as I sit here at a hilly resort porch at the foot of the mystical Banahaw; this very moment as I type these...

Fantasy Islands

Imagine, if you will, Harry Roque rushing alongside President Duterte to greet the administration’s Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion Law as it crests into view.  “De TRAIN, de TRAIN!”  The TRAIN, signed into law by the President last December 19 and effective on...

Everybody wore black

So did I, not that anyone noticed, but it’s important for us women to stand together, you know, but unlike the gorgeously gowned women at the Golden Globes, I was avoiding the potholes—in flats—on the way to the office.  Unlike me, the ladies...

Gallery: Traslacion 2018

Quiapo Church timeline The Quiapo Church is formally called the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene and the Parish of St. John the Baptist. Below is the history of the church, as well as the statue of the Black Nazarene and the devotion that...

As it is hereby resolved

An easy-peasy pie crust recipe will call for mixing, oh, two-and-a-half cups of flour and a teaspoon of salt, to which you add butter—unsalted, if you prefer—that has been cut into small cubes. Knead the mixture until you get coarse crumbs.  Then, one...

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All downhill from there

Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it.  It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill 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...

“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...

On ‘True Enchantment’

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from...