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Joel Pablo Salud

Town and Country from the Pen of Three Women

I collect rare books not only for that old-world scent trapped between their pages, but for that splendid bit of humanity revealed in each...

Suffer the little children

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — Novelist James Baldwin Let’s begin...

South Africa must be good for the soul

South Africa. A place of raw, untamed beauty. Its cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town in particular, rise from the burrowed ground at once splendid and...

Bag-ong Yanggaw

Perhaps it was right to suppose that evil lurks everywhere. Likhâ’s own father believed this truism all of his young life. This, however, did not...

The Supreme Court: Facing 2019

    Restraint in favor of government. I came upon this sort of “watchword” on the morning of Jan. 16 while on my way to a meeting...

Trigger warning

A long a narrow pavement behind the garage of our old home, on a cold night too distant to recall in detail, I stood...

Our run-off to the Graphic’s centennial

This June, the Philippines Graphic magazine turns 92 as a magazine title. On our 100th anniversary, the year 2027 (God willing I live that long),...

Trisha’s triumph

Trisha Duncan knew what she wanted in life. So much so that while in the middle of all the chase and pursuit, no one...

5 Things I need to do in 2019

The New Year heralds hope. Well, at least, that’s what we all want to believe. Kinda like kicking off a new beginning after the previous...

Why bullying is not child’s play

Bullying is about aggression. Fear in the child victim and the indifference of adult society fuel it. People’s refusal to intervene or report the...