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Anna Orlina comes into her own and finds her ‘Reflections of Being’

‘Creating this collection gave me an opportunity to pause and really think about where I came from’

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The recent launch of the English and Filipino anthology Baguiong Buhay awakened memories of my own family’s decision to move from Manila to Baguio on my eldest daughter Kimi’s seventh birthday in 1992. There we were—she, her four-year-old sister Ida, me, and a desktop computer occupying its own Victory Liner seat. The head of the family had gone ahead with the moving trucks to Lower…
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Has the selection process for the National Artist (NA) awards been reduced to that of a secretive conclave? And must the public endure this cycle…
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It felt so good to wake up to a Federer-Roddick exhibition match Tuesday in the US Open. It made my day, a big happening to kick off the 2026 US Open…
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Many classrooms in the earthquake areas collapsed from the tremors. IT WAS in 2011, while I was visiting the survivors of a busted dogfighting ring in…

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