May Your Wishes All Come True

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We wish you a happy, healthy and bountiful 2025. May all your dreams and desires come true this coming year.

This issue marks our 12th year of publication and, as is our wont, we begin by thanking you for the support and encouragement you've given us through all these years. We are still the same group of four that ventured into the digital publication field after years of being in print media. It took quite a lot of learning and tweaking to gain confidence in this new arena. We can't really say we've mastered this; new technologies are coming up swiftly -- too swiftly -- for us to catch up. But we're still here and our goal of bringing the massive, complex Filipino diaspora together via our shared stories remains.

We hope you'll continue to be with us as we navigate the uncertain world that is upon us in 2025. Let's start our trek to the future by looking back to what we are leaving behind, what we've gone through and who we have lost in 2024.

And for a bit of whimsy, we're including some fun items from our first month of being-- January 2013.

This Week’s Stories

The Year of Breaking Up Badly by Ernesto M. Hilario

In Memoriam 2024 by Mona Lisa Yuchengco

The Most-Read Stories of 2024

Read Agains from January 2013:

“Opo Pinoy Style” Infects the Internet

Sex and the Senate by Marilen J. Danguilan

Come Join Me in Portugal by Tiago Gutierrez Marques

[Video of the Week] Chef Lord Maynard Llera

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On a Hopeful Note

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We end 2022 as we have done every year -- on a hopeful, optimistic note especially now that the Covid pandemic seems to be better controlled. It hasn't been an easy 12 months, politically and personally, but 2022, at the very least, was when the world returned to as close to normal as it can get after two years of debilitating lockdowns and isolation.

Our Motherland inaugurated a new administration this year which didn't really change much of anything other than the faces of those in charge. Here's the Philippine yearend report as summarized by political journalist, Ernesto M. Hilario.

Two days from now, on December 30, the 124th anniversary of Jose Rizal's execution by the Spanish colonialists will be commemorated. Writing from the Netherlands, first-time PF contributor Jacob Apostol revisits the "controversy" around Rizal's National Hero designation.

One of the more enduring FilAm woman city mayor/council member in the San Francisco Bay Area is Joanne del Rosario of Colma, CA. A former Maryknoll College schoolmate, PF Correspondent Cherie Querol-Moreno, recalls their college days and celebrates their subsequent friendship.

If you did some cooking this holiday season, chances are you used Chorizo de Bilbao, a mainstay of Filipino dishes for special occasions. It's the Spanish touch that actually isn't, as PF Correspondent Myles A. Garcia reveals.

In case you missed out on some of our issues this year, here's our Top 10 Most Read Stories. 

And for your New Year celebration, PF Correspondent and author of multiple recipe books, Elizabeth Ann Quirino, shares her favorites. http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/recipes-for-your-new-year-celebration

[Video of the Week] 26 Year Old Filipino on the Road to Sainthood

Here's to a healthier, happier 2023. 

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