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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,...

Why it’s worth remembering Paeng Salas

The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has been generating interest on the life and times of the late Rafael “Paeng” M. Salas, first executive director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and creator of the first population program of...

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...

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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...

Town cops repulse NPA surprise attack

It was supposed to be a surprise attack on a police station. The plan was to take the police officers unawares by hitting them...

Knock, knock, who’s there? God

Fornication’s best ambassadress will have to be Janice de Belen. In 1986, when she was still in her teens, she became pregnant by Aga...

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....