by Nelson Lim The day started wonderfully. Here I was, happily working from home and enjoying my hot steaming mug of coffee. The sky was overcast – perfect for me and my darkly optimistic soul....
by Mariegold Echavez Jabla The rain came in a persistent drizzle. I guess it’s always like this in high-altitude areas. Marilog District, Davao City has always been a foggy and drizzly place as far back...
by Fratri Edson Silva As the world slowly begins to open its doors again and #travelgoals begin to thaw after being put on ice the past year, my social media feed is already bogged down...
by Kirsten Ilajas It felt like going out of prison. Free at last – free to go inside the boarding gate, to present my passport at the immigration, to buy overpriced water, and finally. to...
by Vilfe Bacus I missed this. That’s the first thing that came out of my mouth as I approached the entrance gate of our wet market this beautiful sunny morning. Back when I was still...
by Mariegold E. Jabla Sunflowers will always face the sun; we all know that, but no one talks about what happens to them at noon, the least glamorous time of the day to take...
by Mariegold Jabla In the light of the hot afternoon sun, with the dust from the ongoing traffic settling down, this once-majestic house looks gloomy, alone in its melancholy, abandoned like the many dreams...
by: Fratri Edson Silva I feel as though I have lived several lives over the past year and a half that we’ve spent living in this pandemic under (various forms of) quarantine. In March 2020...
by Marigold Jabla Every time we embark on life’s new adventures, before we get our sea legs on, we oftentimes drift for a while, unanchored, just wandering aimlessly in the vast ocean of...
by: JC Aquino Written under the rays of the last days of the Mediterranean summer, where the days seem longer, and there is this embrace of air that reminds you that a change of season...
