By Leonardo Micua AFTER almost two years with the pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel that we all dreamt to see might be too near but yet too far for all of us. What of the newly emerged Sub-Delta variant already detected in Russia and Israel…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A group of eight bikers arrived as we were leaving the area before three o’clock in the afternoon. My companions took their turns taking a bath in a makeshift shack made of bamboos. JC and Chloe took a shower in a faucet under the bamboo trees….
By Atty. Farah G. Decano MENTAL calisthenics on ethical dilemmas – who has heard of this as a form of relaxation? Well, this seems to be a favorite past time of three fiery intellectuals I know way back in the 1990s when we were merely wide-eyed young idealistic students…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 1995 five-day Tour of Pangasinan bikefest dubbed as “OO Na, Takbo Na” became the standard for competitive cycling among the Pangasinan cycling enthusiasts who participated. Today, the same contestants, most of whom are already retired, keep asking me if there will be a…
By Rex Catubig LIKE an exclamation point to the shrill wheezing of the disc grinder cutting through the metal tubes for my fence , a ping sounded on my messenger that opened to a very casual message asking if I could accommodate a merienda meeting among a couple of…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read on www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: ‘Daddy,…
By Jing Villamil Three years ago, this poem I wrote, only for my knight. Now, as events unfold, it seems we shall have to take it out of the “baul”, shake it free of the dust it had gathered. We shall read it again. For my knight. And for…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE sun was out shining in Dagupan City for two days but like a curse, the city’s main streets and district area were still severely flooded. But not one belonging to the city’s Flood Mitigation Commission, created in 2019, to craft a master plan to…
By Al S. Mendoza THE nation awaits the coming of the last candidate with bated breath. Who might that be? Sara Duterte, the current mayor of Davao City. A bit of trivia: Davao is the world’s largest city, where it is also home to the world’s only monkey-eating eagle….
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