Chapbook of pandemic literature
A CHAPBOOK is a small booklet.
Usually of tales, poetry, fiction, even essays or creative nonfiction.
For our purposes, let’s only consider booklets 18-24 pages long...
Photoshoot
I DO CRAZY things in my life.
When I am bored, I organize projects like a photoshoot.
My photoshoots are events in themselves.
There’s a professional photographer.
There’s...
Fabulous ages
AN AUNT celebrated her 70th birthday three weeks ago.
In a way, I hosted it.
She lives in Kidapawan now, but she wanted her birthday celebration...
Freebies, Part 2
I ORDERED arroz caldo with a chicken leg after my local (endemic?) noodle-making class.
I decided I could have miki ligis with boiled egg when it’s ready.
Then, came...
Freebies, Part 1
IT’S A Tuesday afternoon, and at 5 pm, I still haven’t spent a single peso.
So I’m heading towards Kape’t Bahay, my now default coffeeshop...
The restaurant
THIS IS NOT an advertisement or an infomercial about the restaurant at our PRIMA CT Building in the Dumangas poblacion.
The restuarant has ceased operating...
The veranda
THERE’S a veranda on the second floor of PRIMA CT, our ancestral place at the Dumangas poblacion.
Some people call it ‘the terrace’.
The fact that it...
New eyes
MARCH is here.
Where did the first quarter of 2023 go?
Of course, there was Dinagyang.
There was Valentine’s Day.
There was even EDSA Revolution anniversary.
But seriously, is...
Mr. Smile
IF YOU have been following me on Facebook or Instagram, you would have seen in the last few days, maybe the last few weeks,...
Next, Casa
THE NEW fire code of the Philippines has required my three-story building, Casa Dom Pedro, a fire escape.
They weren’t happy with New York-style retractable...