By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo (This is the last part of my account of the trek to Secret Haven, Norzagaray, Bulacan, 10 October 2021). SHE left us there, waiting for the driver to come back and tell us what to do. Then we saw Bryan, slipping through the mud at…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I attended the symposium of the Philippine Sports Commission’s (PSC) Gintong Gawad (GIGA) national search for outstanding grassroots women in sports held at Pangasinan Sports Development and Management Council office last October 27. The affair was presided by PSC’s Oversight Commissioner for Women in Sports…
By Rex Catubig EVERY culture has its own unique way of grappling with the concept of death and redemption; of life here and life hereafter. It manifests itself in some odd rites and rituals: perhaps bizarre, absurd, irrational and fanciful. But beneath all that, they are ultimately ennobling because…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. A catechist was concluding her class on forgiveness of sins and the sacrament of reconciliation. She asked a question to her children, “Tell…
By Jing Villamil START with the black-and-white pictures you yourself hand glued on stiff pages of thick, heavy hard-bound albums. Summer beaches, our sandy fingers spooning adobo, bangus, pakbet while shivering in bathing-suits home-sewn by Mom. Weekend movies for free in your Dagupan cousins’ theaters; ice cream afterwards in…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHILE the bleeding hearts of human rights groups are crying out over the deaths of suspected EJK among drug peddlers, millions of families can’t be thankful enough for keeping their members safe and away from the clutches of drug syndicates. And contrary to the admission…
By Al S. Mendoza OK, class, listen up. Why do some people run for public office? Sometimes too many hopefuls are brave—crazy?—enough to make the plunge. Have I not said here a while back that 97 souls are running for president in the May 2022 election? What drives one…
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…
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