by Dianne Sanchez I was preoccupied with random thoughts on my way to buy food supplies. For the past three months, I’ve only gone outside only about six times—either to buy groceries or to withdraw...
We were never ready. No one was. In a split second, the streets that were once a scenery of celebration for life are now deserted. People were forced to live inside their homes, and for...
by Kirsten Ilajas We wake up to a different world these days. We are locked in the same place we’ve stayed for years or are trapped somewhere in a strange land. We spend the...
by James Aquino Written near the portside of Amalfi, near the docked yachts and tourist buses. The sky was clear, and the water unconditionally embraced the umbrella-lined shores. The faint scents of flowers and...
by Fratri Edson Silva When you’ve already been to the northernmost point/province in the country, it’s going to be hard to follow that up. However, the northernmost point of the island of Luzon surprised me....
by Ten Ilajas I should have stayed at the hostel—better yet, I should have stayed home. I was lost in the little alleys of Singapore with my phone signaling that it would switch off unless I...