Tonight is the heaviest
It’s 2 a.m. at some apartment in a foreign country away from home. My colleagues are not with me. Two...
First day jitters
I can't recall exactly how I felt on my first day as a preschooler. All I have are secondhand accounts...
Bridging walls
A couple of years ago, a group of young men including myself met one morning in the church of a...
Little secret no more
Do you still remember our little secret? I do. It was 1997. I was 5 then, fragile and naive; you...
Contractual, casual, regular
I have had mixed feelings about the sweeping labor reforms being implemented by Mayor Vico Sotto for the contractual workers...
How do you embrace a ‘killer’?
“So for HIV, you are reactive…” The rest of what the counselor told me after those six words just became...