Savoring Sagada

Savoring Sagada

Though we’ve heard about the unique hanging coffins, our group was more interested in soaking in the magic of Sagada. For that was what regular visitors to the quaint town told us – you don’t just go to Sagada, you experience it.

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Historical Gossip

Historical Gossip

What piqued our interest were the stories of love affairs and scandals that some of our well-known heroes were party to in the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

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Take Back the Light

Take Back the Light

It is lonelier to be in a relationship that doesn’t work than to be actually alone. Trust me on this.

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Good Filipino Reads

Good Filipino Reads

This is why reading books by authors of Filipino heritage (wherever they may be in the world) is so important: their stories are our stories writ immortal, and by reading them, we get to understand ourselves more.

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Creative Subversion

Creative Subversion

It was a time for meeting kindred spirits in the unlikeliest of places and situations. It was also a time for looking deep inside oneself and finding out what's there, be it bravery or cowardice. Most of all, for the writers and artists who fought the regime, it was a time for creative subversion.

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After 9/11

After 9/11

I admit that I’m frantically ferreting out these instances of a united America amidst the increasing shrillness of the rhetoric of war that is now dominating the airwaves. 

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So Many Books, So Little Time

So Many Books, So Little Time

I have set a goal of reading cover-to-cover 100 books for 2014, not an easy task because I get interrupted a lot by household chores, socials and other pleasurable obligations, such as putting out this online magazine.

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Romantic Fugue

Romantic Fugue

She felt the intensity of the restlessness and the need to be free but didn’t yet have the words that could make him understand. 

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