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Christmas, and the topic between us was “love.” I forced a conversation with Elias, my youngest son, who would rather have been rooted to his monitor if left to himself. Still, I told him to talk to…
Consider Duterte and Trump. They are purveyors of authoritarianism. And yet, they have achieved and will achieve very little that is of any historical significance in their terms. The world has changed in a way we are…
It is ironic that I should remember that smell now since December brings with it the pollens that give most of us in the family chronic Rhinitis such that we can hardly smell anything. There is a…
This should not dampen our Christmas cheer. The season calls for it. And it will not come without forgiveness, especially of our neighbors whom we are commanded to love as we would ourselves. December, and the season…
We yield always to mechanics, inertia, momentum, the angular velocities of moving bodies, the laws of Physics. We might write our lives like fiction. But reality is what it is. Love is funny. I guess. Quite as…
So how do I do this? This question becomes more important the more the writer intends to reveal himself in the writing. Thus, I wish if only I could to resurrect “The Maker” or some other third-person-character…
My brother said, “Sakita atong landinga uy!” (Painful landing) The plane slammed into the tarmac with a screech of rubber peeling away into the asphalt. The landing gear strained to take the initial slam of gravity and…
People are signifiers of meaning. This is how we deal with people. We cannot really know people exactly well though we sometimes think we do. This includes people who are closest to us. This is how we…
A lady is talking at herself, ranting at the world. The world is passing all about her through the exit doors of Port Authority where the buses end their journey. Here they meet the train and subway…
I had seen that look of terror on a woman’s face before; but it was only in movies – make believe – cheap Hollywood. It was never this real. I returned home from hard work that afternoon.…
What do Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Rodrigo Duterte have in common? They are powerful men. They are all funny. Or try to be. Though the joke is more often than not on us. And where Duterte…
Bakukang is the black horned beetle native here where we have forests of coconut trees. They are not pests. They have at best a neutral effect on the environment such that we wonder why they are there…
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