This special thing called bucket list
Many of us have what we agreed to call “bucket list”, a fascinating list of things that we hope to do now but could not due to lack of time and/or money (which could be one of the reasons we always...
View ArticleHow super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit this blog, too, and its writer…
Like many other citizens in the Philippines, I was an emotional wreck. In some ways, I still am, like many other citizens in the Philippines. What we had was like living Lemony Snicket’s Series of...
View ArticleThe "missed" closing remarks in the Best Cebu Blogs Awarding Ceremony
(Note: This was supposedly the short closing remarks I meant to give during the Best Cebu Blogs Awarding Ceremony on Dec. 7, 2013, but which I failed to provide because my four-day on-and-off fever...
View ArticleThe Cebu City Public Library is alive, but… (First of Two Parts)
The last thing I want is to know that the public libraries in the Philippines are at the mercy of politics in order to survive. Ever since I was able to comprehend this unwanted detail and all the...
View ArticleThe Long and Winding History of the Cebu City Public Library (Last of Two Parts)
(The first of this two-part series is titled “The Cebu City Public Library is alive, but…”) If the Cebu City Public Library (CCPL) was a person, it would be a combat-strained, torture-tested cynical...
View ArticleA tough start at integrating technology in the college classroom
How do you start integrating technology in classroom instruction? Perhaps, in my case, the proper question would be, how do I start integrating technology in a class with students who have long...
View ArticleOpinion: What makes a citizen journalist?
For two separate occasions, I was invited to speak about citizen journalism from a blogger’s point of view. On both occasions, I was challenged to present my ideas without digging my grave. I was a...
View ArticleReflection: The right (spiritual) attitude when starting a business
It is no secret that I started my writing business last February. It’s called The Memoriter Writing Service. I offer to write content for small businesses and nonprofits based in Cebu. Along my new...
View ArticleStories: A Story of Gratitude
Surrounded by stories. That’s what I am. I wake up to blinking cursors on words of client stories waiting to be edited. I take breaks reading about the voyages of Doctor Dolittle (or whoever it is I...
View ArticleThree beautiful homes turn into the 'most haunted houses'
The term “beautiful” can be subjective. What I have here are interesting facts about homes that would have been beautiful for a big family and their successors to live in, especially without stories...
View ArticleWhy literature should be an important part of your life
In America, in 2012, The Telegraph announced that American literature classics will be replaed by insulation manuals and plant inventories, which are approved, non-fiction texts, in US classrooms by...
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