‘Titang Ina’
(By Rae Dawn B. Maestrado)
IT’S A WORD I’ve come across during my routine internet scrolling. I remember the caption saying something like “Safe ka...
Loving Saturdays!
SATURDAYS are my extra special days because the days prior, I devote sufficient time, resources, and preparation for an hour-long talk show that I...
The road to forty-eight
I HAVE always been thin, all my life. It’s not a mystery just in case you are perplexed. I remember gaining weight on three...
Inflight ‘green peas with dried mango bits’
ON OUR way to Butuan City, we had an unpleasant experience with a Philippine Air Lines (PAL) personnel at the Mactan Cebu International Airport...
When in Butuan
(By Charmaine Sales)
TRAVELING to Butuan City after 30 long years – now that’s three decades, whoa! – makes me feel old but young at...
Writing is my second love
IN THE movie “Julie & Julia”, Julie said, “Cooking saved me; Julia saved me.”This is quite relatable. When one goes through a dark hole,...
Politics and loss
I CAN SENSE that there is no love lost between new Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and his predecessor, Atty. Victor Rodriguez, based on his...
Acacias fronting our Taloto house
I’M TYPING on my laptop while looking at the vinyl records of my father that I intentionally hung on the wall just to have...
Writing defeat
(By Hezekiah Kit Sales Canlas)
“KIT, GAWA ka na ng concession.”
It was around 10:30 in the evening. Seventy-eight to eighty percent already counted. But the...
Jagna’s hero
Local hero
There are yet so many towns that I want to explore in my home province of Bohol. Hopefully, in time I will be...