Ring In the New Year
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More than the merriment of Christmas, the dawning of a new year has always been my personal favorite holiday.
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Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between
The Gravity of Vanity
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Vanity is no match for gravity, and the sooner we accept that, the easier it is to shift our efforts to more realistic goals such as, uhmmm, becoming more interesting as we age.
Read MoreThe Good In Us
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What makes a Filipino still a Filipino even as he speaks a new language, acquires a different citizenship and changes the way he sees his future?
Read MoreThe End of Her World
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She waited that night, like any parent would, for a child coming home from war. Not wanting to waste a moment to open the door, she sat on her rocking chair, her senses alert to the ticking of the minutes and the sounds of the night.
Read MoreRightsizing
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Simplifying our life means we have more time and space to cherish within us those that mean most to us.
Read MoreDirty Pleasures
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Looking back, I realize that ambulant vendors peddling food were so present in our lives then that we were never hungry. They would come like clockwork at their appointed time.
Read MoreChildhood Reveries
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I lived in the UP Diliman campus until I graduated from college and then I moved a mile away to UP Village. I still consider it my hometown, the place I return to in my mind, when looking back to happier times becomes my only defense against the inevitable sadness that accompanies adulthood.
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