by Mariegold Echavez-Jabla Originally, my task was to get to a hilly area and take a photo early in the morning. Like most things lately, we hardly have any liberty to do things as planned....
by: JC Aquino Written near a window overlooking the Church of St. Francis, where the whirring sound of diesel generators are in stark contrast to the pitch-black night. Where the children are playing downstairs, guided...
by Dianne Sanchez We travel and get stuck on the idea that when traveling, we need to go somewhere far. So when our means of traveling to distant places are indeterminate, we tend to...
By: Rene Cajoles It was a random day when I decided to do some errands late in the afternoon. I got in my car and drove through the rush hour traffic. I was driving...
By: Kirsten Ilajas Do you believe in the saying, “If it is meant to be, it will be?” Three years ago, I never believed in this idea. I thought that this was just a...
by Mariegold Jabla I woke up from my got-tired-of-waiting sleep, and switched my mobile data on. As I stare blankly at my phone screen at 6 minutes past midnight, I saw my face beside that...
by Ann Gumiran While getting back to its feet from the wrath of the sleeping giant that spewed fear and ashes painting the whole city gray, the people are down on their knees again from...
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...