Bitter Melon Sounds

Bitter Melon Sounds

How a writer came to “know his ass from a hole in the ground.”

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Our Indomitable Mamang

Our Indomitable Mamang

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.

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My Mother’s Task

My Mother’s Task

On Mother’s Day 2024, screenwriter-actress Bibeth Orteza remembers her mother’s honest way of protecting her from hurt.

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Postcards from Rome

Postcards from Rome

Her mother’s passing bookmarks the writer’s vivid memories of the Eternal City.

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Impossible Things

Impossible Things

A writer pays homage to an educator who championed the gifted among Filipinos and made sure their potentials are not unrealized.

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Charmed at the Fringes

Charmed at the Fringes

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.

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Sojourn to Truth-Telling in My Blasian Reality

Sojourn to Truth-Telling in My Blasian Reality

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 Ate Nene, with Flowers in Her Hair

My Ate Nene, with Flowers in Her Hair

Remembrance of a sibling past.

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My Lola Helped Change the Course of WWII

My Lola Helped Change the Course of WWII

An artist discovers an ancestor’s unsung historical achievement.

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Remembering Joyce Juan-Manalo

Remembering Joyce Juan-Manalo

Artist Allan Manalo honors his late wife and theatre collaborator, Joyce Juan-Manalo.

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