Rightsizing
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Simplifying our life means we have more time and space to cherish within us those that mean most to us.
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Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between
Dirty Pleasures
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Looking back, I realize that ambulant vendors peddling food were so present in our lives then that we were never hungry. They would come like clockwork at their appointed time.
Read MoreChildhood Reveries
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I lived in the UP Diliman campus until I graduated from college and then I moved a mile away to UP Village. I still consider it my hometown, the place I return to in my mind, when looking back to happier times becomes my only defense against the inevitable sadness that accompanies adulthood.
Read MoreSavoring Sagada
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Though we’ve heard about the unique hanging coffins, our group was more interested in soaking in the magic of Sagada. For that was what regular visitors to the quaint town told us – you don’t just go to Sagada, you experience it.
Read MoreHistorical Gossip
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What piqued our interest were the stories of love affairs and scandals that some of our well-known heroes were party to in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Read MoreTake Back the Light
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It is lonelier to be in a relationship that doesn’t work than to be actually alone. Trust me on this.
Read MoreGood Filipino Reads
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This is why reading books by authors of Filipino heritage (wherever they may be in the world) is so important: their stories are our stories writ immortal, and by reading them, we get to understand ourselves more.
Read MoreCreative Subversion
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It was a time for meeting kindred spirits in the unlikeliest of places and situations. It was also a time for looking deep inside oneself and finding out what's there, be it bravery or cowardice. Most of all, for the writers and artists who fought the regime, it was a time for creative subversion.
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