Bitter Melon Sounds
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How a writer came to “know his ass from a hole in the ground.”
Read MoreOur Indomitable Mamang
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Life was tough every step of the way for a mother with eight children, but the way she lived it one would not have guessed just how tough.
Read MoreMy Mother’s Task
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On Mother’s Day 2024, screenwriter-actress Bibeth Orteza remembers her mother’s honest way of protecting her from hurt.
Read MorePostcards from Rome
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Her mother’s passing bookmarks the writer’s vivid memories of the Eternal City.
Read MoreImpossible Things
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A writer pays homage to an educator who championed the gifted among Filipinos and made sure their potentials are not unrealized.
Read MoreCharmed at the Fringes
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Being in Tawi-Tawi, on the edge of the Philippines, writer Datu Shariff Pendatun became more convinced that borders, for the most part, exist only because they are imagined.
Read MoreSojourn to Truth-Telling in My Blasian Reality
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A Black Fil-Am looks back on her growing-up years in the Philippines and as an educator-writer in the U.S.
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My Lola Helped Change the Course of WWII
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An artist discovers an ancestor’s unsung historical achievement.
Read MoreRemembering Joyce Juan-Manalo
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Artist Allan Manalo honors his late wife and theatre collaborator, Joyce Juan-Manalo.
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