The road always taken
ALL ROADS lead to the cemetery on Nov. 1, the traditional All Saints’ Day, as we Christians pay homage to our departed kins.
Death is...
Money or life?
“MONEY or life?”
This writer bets we all have seen a movie where a robber asks a robbed one that question at gunpoint. The wrong...
Inflation through the years
THE WORD inflation used to sound Greek to most Filipinos. Now it’s what we remember when we pay much more for food and other...
Conquering the fear of death
MY LAST telephone conversation with a very close friend and colleague, the late Panay News founder Danny Fajardo, focused on what work he wanted...
A call for environmental reform
JUDGING from TV footages of rehabilitation work being done, is Boracay Island really ready for reopening on Friday the 26th? Assuming “yes” to be the...
Why I like eating fish
“DON’T you eat fish?” So asked a friend who had read my column about “going semi-vegetarian” to fight a heart disease known as “left...
Revisiting the ‘Loyalty’ author
ON MY first working day at the old Manila International Airport a long time ago, a framed quotation on the wall caught my attention....
Should we rejoice over another health law?
A SENATOR and a former congressman – Joseph Victor G. Ejercito and Harry Roque, respectively – are on Cloud 9 because the Senate has...
The lost meaning of success
WHEN I was in Journalism school, I had classmates who could not write a simple news report. I knew they were there not because...
They who have time and gold
YOU AND I have heard of Scott Fitzgerald telling another American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, “You know, the rich are different from you and me.”
Hemingway...