I was home in Cebu two weekends ago when I got Her Again, Becoming Meryl Streep. I killed time at the biography section of National Bookstore while waiting for a buddy who’s helping me on my house construction plans. Biography is a genre that I am yet to properly discover. My first biography was Danielle […]
When Breath Becomes Air
Our team at AP Renewables Inc. opened 2018 with a major event called the Kabataan Inyovators. It is a youth development program participated by 160 youth leaders from the communities hosting our plants’ facilities. Inyovation was derived from inyo or yours and innovation, one of our organization’s core values. We engaged the youth leaders to think […]
A Book Lover’s Book
There are a few but very good reasons why I love to read. To explore and get lost. To learn and grow in understanding. To be serenaded by words I don’t get from songs and conversations. And to be enchanted. For us book lovers, the pages of a book contain magic that makes life bearable […]
High School Never Ends
High school never ends. This was the comment of my high school batch mate, Glenda, on my Facebook post about our class’ gatherings over the holidays. I was at the grocery yesterday for my favorite locally produced corned beef. I was a bit sleepy; got home at past 3 a.m. following an impromptu karaoke at […]
2017: A Year of Reading Harder
My 2017 was about goals. We make resolutions and those resolutions seem absolute when the New Year fireworks soar and light up the heavens. Then the brand new year unfolds and the resolutions are forgotten. Not for me this time. What I did was actually write everything down and put measures to gauge my […]
Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book Club
How does one begin appreciating something that’s so profoundly beautiful? You see, whenever I finish reading a great book, I have this usual loss for words. Because the experience was so moving and magical, I sense this obligation to tell the world about the book. Yet I know that my words would never completely convey […]
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