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(Yesterday’s column)
“How to get sued” is a hilarious yet truthful look into the world of litigation. Its author, J. Craig Williams, is a practicing lawyer in California and is one of my earliest online acquaintances when I started blogging in 2003. I went on to write for the print media; Craig became a broadcast media [...]
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… And never tell them that the only things worth reading are those labeled by the high-brows as profound.
Alex reads a lot of manga online. There was a time when I worried that it might affect her reading pattern. Manga — or Japanese comics for the uninitiated — are read from right to left. She [...]
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Amado V. Hernandez’s novel “Mga Ibong Mandaragit” (Birds of Prey) is required reading for third year students in the school that my daughters go to. When my younger daughter first brought home a library copy of the book, the author’s name struck me as familiar. I did a little research and found out that the [...]
Continue reading 'The birds of prey and Batjay' →
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The following article appeared on the opinion page of the January 10 edition of Manila Standard Today.
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills conducted a study to highlight the government’s adult learning campaign. Thirty-five recipes from the books of five celebrity chefs were analyzed and the conclusion was that Nigella Lawson [...]
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Sam and Alex started school at the same time. When Sam entered nursery school, Alex went to pre-nursery. Sam was 3; Alex was 2. Sam was excited about school and she did not cling to me nor demanded that I stay. Alex cried the moment I was out of sight. I stayed during the first [...]
Continue reading 'Can you talk about your children without bragging about them?' →
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There is only one period of English history that I studied with genuine interest—the reign of Elizabeth I. Because she was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, whose three-year reign ended when Henry ordered her beheaded, it was natural that I would get to read about them too. If I [...]
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I often marvel at the public’s obsession over the private lives of the rich and famous — the entertainment celebrities, the multimillionaires, the families of politicians, the socialites and the social climbers. I have always found it amazing how people can spend hours and hours everyday poring over their photos, tabloid gossip and even how [...]
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This is not a joke.
This evening, again in New York City, this time at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling dropped a bombshell on the Harry Potter fan community. When asked by a fan if Dumbledore ever loved anyone, J.K. Rowling replied Dumbledore was gay. Reports from the scene say a hush fell over the crowd and [...]
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I saw the film before I read the book. Cable TV was new in the mid-1990s and one of the first movies I enjoyed was The House of the Spirits. To say that I was mesmerized would be an understatement. I fell head over heels in love with the story and the years of search [...]
Continue reading 'Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits' →
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It was Carol who first told me about Bestsellers, a division of National Bookstore, at Robinson’s Galleria. We didn’t have the opportunity to visit it until two days ago.
We were spending overnight at a hotel (Sam’s request for her birthday since the unpredictable weather made it difficult to risk going out of town) and, after [...]
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