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‘This is what 80 looks like’
In March of 2023, in time for International Women’s Month, I launched my third book entitled, Why Should Guys Have All The Fun? An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood and Running A Billion Dollar Empire. Through my 200-page memoir, I shared my life’s journey from my joyful upbringing as a young girl in […]
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Book suggests that the best path forward is to look to the past
By Allen Gaborro Reverting to the Religio Romana era, the Janus figure has come to symbolize the dawning of a new day, a hopeful changeover to a prime altered state, and as Jobert E. Abueva frames it in Emerson’s words, “A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the […]
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Transformed memories: How the ‘arroz caldo’ became our family’s treasured comfort food
By Teresa Carandang The arroz caldo of my childhood was a dish I associated with illness. As a child, I was sensitive to the sharp gingery flavor of the soup and intensely disliked biting into the ginger slices which I would always mistake for chicken. The seemingly huge chicken pieces sticking out of the soupy […]
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Joel David’s ‘Canon Decampment:’ Philippine cinema through the years
By Allen Gaborro What many Filipinos think about Philippine cinema off the top of their heads are the plethora of heavily marketed, A-list action flicks, romantic and socio-economic on-the-edge melodramas, and hilarious comedies that have illuminated theater screens for decades. Distinguished cinema analyst and academic Joel David acknowledges the significance of this familiar view. But […]
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Janet Salazar writes about the real power behind decision-making in debut book
Every one of us has faced a decision we could not make alone. The pivot out of a steady job to chase the thing you actually love. The choice to start a business, or to put your name on a ballot. The morning you had to lay someone off. We watch bigger versions of the […]
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‘Ube is ours,’ but what does that really mean?
By Cristina DC Pastor As purple yam becomes a global food sensation, the Philippines faces the challenge of how to protect, define and capitalize on a crop that has become deeply identified with Filipino culture. Ube is many things to many of us. It is ube halaya at Christmas, the colorful swirl in halo-halo, a […]
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An Ivy League inspiration: A community library finds a home in Mindanao
By Elaine Joy Edaya Degale Before the Library, there was Merienda. I founded Operation Merienda in 2020 while completing my graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University. My academic work examined philanthropy through the frameworks of human rights and peace education. I was interested in how philanthropic projects could provide resources to communities without treating […]
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Author Cinelle Barnes finds her way back after losing memory from aneurysm
By Allen Gaborro Today’s volatile, information-laden, post-truth paradigm makes it difficult to turn our focus away from the external world and toward our inward life. However, even at the risk of confronting doubt, anxiety, and the fear of inadequacy—and with the outside world ceaselessly closing in—we are compelled to observe and comprehend our delicate, complicated […]
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R. Ghrist debuts historical fiction about a forgotten heroine in wartime Manila
I Am Joey by R. Ghrist is a historical novel inspired by the extraordinary true story of Josefina Guerrero, a young Filipina woman whose courage during World War II helped shape the resistance movement in Japanese-occupied Manila. Set during one of the darkest periods in Philippine history, the novel follows Josefina as her privileged life […]