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How an ancient wisdom helped me piece together my fractured life.
Each night as I put my three-year-old son to bed we read our books, we sing our songs, and I tell myself that he may not survive to see the morning. When I revealed this to my mother the other night, she ...
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In the modern age, plans are made to be broken.
My friend and I arranged to have dinner recently. We haven't seen each other for seven years, and I was sufficiently excited about our meeting that I actually picked up the phone and booked a table at a restaurant. Yet when he ...
You're not the only one apathetic about our failing democratic system.
I have consciously and intentionally refrained from publicly commenting or expressing my sentiments to an electoral cycle, which I do think is frankly pointless. I even doubt if I will even show up to the polls. And this is for a reason; ...
I can't sleep through the night. I continue to doomscroll. The return to normal seems like it's maybe bullshit.
I marked the two-year anniversary of the pandemic the way I do most nights now: waking up with a start and blearily checking my watch. It's 3 a.m., 4, 4:30, if I'm lucky. Eventually, I accept that I'm awake. It's the same ...
If getting married was about leaving one family and starting another one, making a will felt like a reminder you’d be leaving that family one day, too
Nobody is getting out of this world alive: three grandparents and two cocker spaniels departing in quick succession inured me to this fact some time ago. Still, I was surprised when one of the first pieces of advice I was given on ...
We live in a state where wealth belongs, or can be created, only by the very few.
True story—I heard this through the grapevine: A self-made man who has also become a newly arrived snob gets to know an even larger snob and his colleague over a series of business meetings. The larger snob has observed that the self-made man, ...
The existential dread of just another desensitized Gen Z.
“Citizens, do you want a revolution without a revolution?”This stirring provocation was delivered by the French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre before the National Convention in 1792. Both adored and reviled, he stood as the apostle of a defining moment in European history, which ...
Only science can save us now.
In times of crisis, it’s easy for the voices of those directly affected to be drowned out by the noise of the people on top making the decisions. After Typhoon Ulysses tore through Luzon, the calls for “resilience” have been constant, but ...
On Philippine history: Should it be told in context to the nation or to the globe?
History must be learned and read, but how must it be told? This is the challenge of historians and historiography today.Top Story: Mark Twain Had an Idea For a Philippine FlagHistoriography, or the act of writing history, is not just a matter of ...
