Thank You, Conrad de Quiros


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Published in the Youngblood column, Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2003

A Tale of Two Orators


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Naked in Tambuli


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My Life As a Faultfinder

I never dreamed or aspired to become a copy editor, let alone in book publishing. But I relish it-never mind the manic depression of a manager. She and I do not interact anyway.

If not for the continued hopelessness of physiotherapy practice in this country, I may be assisting some invalid now with a walker in some home for ( Read more... )

Once There Was a Better BatterI was athletic as a child. Seriously. There may be pittance to attest to that now-I realize I don’t have even have photos to ascertain that-but I was active and playful all right, enough to demonstrate I had a normal childhood ( Read more... )

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Rooting for Lea


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Just to Piss You off before I say Adios, Dos Mil Sinco


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Ikê TomboyThe cleaner of the church in Antique where I grew up, and where Dad was Aglipayan parish priest for fourteen years, was called Ikê. She was then in her early thirties or so. Ikê was a lesbian in the starkest meaning of the word; her menstrual period, assuming she had it, was the only thing female in her. In fact, for me to imagine Ikê ( Read more... )