Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between

September 21, 2016

That Awful Four-Letter Word

September 21, 2016/ Gemma Nemenzo

Hatred, after all, begets hatred and its weapon of destruction could easily turn in our direction. We, as people of faith, are better and bigger than that.

June 15, 2016

Paternal Instincts

June 15, 2016/ Gemma Nemenzo

We loved and fought with equal ferocity, each of us unsure of how we should play our roles yet conscious of the need to assume multiple ones to keep the family ship on an even keel.

March 23, 2016

Par for the Coarse

March 23, 2016/ Gemma Nemenzo

What no one prepared them for was that they were entering Filipino macho-land where the rules of conversation and social engagement are different.

January 27, 2016

The Pile of 2015

January 27, 2016/ Gemma Nemenzo

We categorically state that this publication will always lend support to authors of Filipino heritage, as best as we can.

November 18, 2015

Backyards

November 18, 2015/ Gemma Nemenzo

Before our road trip across America, I’d forgotten how much I loved backyards. I grew up on a university campus when there were no boundaries between houses, and kids were free to roam the lush and verdant backyards in search of trees to climb and ripe fruits to pick.

November 04, 2015

Just Married, Simply

November 04, 2015/ Gemma Nemenzo

No one can accuse our family of being conventional.

October 20, 2015

Bison and Brooklyn

October 20, 2015/ Gemma Nemenzo

Random Notes on a Road Trip

September 16, 2015/ Gemma Nemenzo

We have now agreed on a changed concept of home: Home is no longer an address or a static structure; it’s where we are, together. We are each other’s home.

Gemma Nemenzo