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Last month, I wrote two stories for CDN featuring two boys who share the same first name, the same age and the same city of residence. I met the two Philips in two separate occasions: Philip Bautista…
I am a writing about a person I haven’t personally met but whose videos have helped me through one of the toughest times of my life. It was two years ago and our family of four just…
Nagasaki — This has got to be the most logistically challenging trip that I have ever had since I started traveling at the tender age of one (but I am pretty sure that my mother will argue…
Tokyo – Back in high school, kids called me a “walking encyclopedia”. I carried the moniker around campus both as a curse and as a badge of honor. “Walking encyclopedia” came with the word “nerd,” a term…
It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow; and I won’t be in Cebu to celebrate it with Jeff and the mutants: Nicholas Louis, Antoinette Elena and Jeffrey Peter Jr. I’m flying to Manila and then Tokyo as part of the…
Taipei – I’m home. We landed at 9:00 p.m. in the landwhere Mandarin Chinese is spoken and I found myself comfortably talking to locals and taxi drivers. I love this language. It has a familiar ring and…
April is an interesting month in the Philippines. It is wedged between March which is Women’s Month, and May where the second Sunday is Mother’s Day. Lately, I have been doing a lot of thinking about the…
The twins, Nicholas and Antoinette, are participating in a moving-up ceremony come Monday after nine long months of attending day care in our barangay (village). When I enrolled them last July, a few weeks after our return…
Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22, and I can’t help but remember my good friend Maria Luisa “Malu” Largo who left this earth in July 13, 2013 to plant more trees in heaven. Between 2011…
There was a smell of familiarity in the air as the car dropped me off by the building where I spent four long years of my college life. I was filled with the feeling of nostalgia reminiscing…
We don’t have a TV at home. The idiot box failed to enter Casa Ruffolo Uno because Jeff was a staunch bouncer at the door, preventing mindless programming impact this family of five. A no-television home used…
Home from a 10-day successful solo trip, I was hesitant to go back to the field to interview people about their lives and their experiences and write their stories for the newspaper. Have you ever felt that…
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