May 9, 2021
This is a tale of two givers – HAVE-NOT and HAVE. HAVE-NOT lives in dire poverty. She was a teen when she got pregnant, sired six […]
April 19, 2021
The Community Pantry dominates social media nowadays. It began in Maginhawa Street as an initiative of a young entrepreneur named Ana Patricia Non, daughter of fellow […]
April 3, 2021
Yesterday, Good Friday, I woke up to stillness and deathly silence around me except for one strange noise that I’ve been hearing these past few days. […]
February 7, 2021
“Oh look! There’s Mateo with his dog. They are on their way to the market.” I looked closely and I found Mateo walking beside his dog. […]
November 16, 2020
We experienced the flood that various communities are experiencing now in post-Pinatubo Pampanga in the latter part of 1990. I spent half of my life in […]
November 9, 2020
I was there before it happened – Typhoon Rolly, I mean. I went to that now badly-battered part of the Bicol Region in October 2019. It […]
September 17, 2020
The way these words are carelessly uttered in this country nowadays, you’d think it is the easiest thing to do. I was busy with paperwork one […]
September 15, 2020
Not many are aware that the Archdiocese of San Fernando (Pampanga) has a DIGITAL COLLECTION of Spanish-era documents in its archives. When Bp. Ambo David was […]
September 6, 2020
Down and out. How many of us are in this state? After half a dozen months of slugging it out with an unseen enemy, many of […]
August 30, 2020
Can something good come out of a pandemic? Despite the untold pain and sufferings of people, I have something to be grateful for in this time […]