Alfafara Women
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The blood that runs through our veins is the blood of women warriors and we are all the richer for it.
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Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between
The Other Side of EDSA
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Time, distance, a less confrontational world view and the disappointments about the real character and motives of some of the EDSA "heroes" have a way of tempering one's blinders and self-righteousness.
Read MorePope Francis and My Brother
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Pope Francis is the first pope I’ve followed in the news with interest. Thus, I considered it a stroke of good coincidence that we were Manila at the same time that he was.
Read MoreRing In the New Year
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More than the merriment of Christmas, the dawning of a new year has always been my personal favorite holiday.
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The Gravity of Vanity
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Vanity is no match for gravity, and the sooner we accept that, the easier it is to shift our efforts to more realistic goals such as, uhmmm, becoming more interesting as we age.
Read MoreThe Good In Us
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What makes a Filipino still a Filipino even as he speaks a new language, acquires a different citizenship and changes the way he sees his future?
Read MoreThe End of Her World
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She waited that night, like any parent would, for a child coming home from war. Not wanting to waste a moment to open the door, she sat on her rocking chair, her senses alert to the ticking of the minutes and the sounds of the night.
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