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She is a freelance writer, editor, breast cancer and depression survivor, environmental advocate, dog mother to three asPins and a three-legged pusPin, and BTS Army Tita. She is an occasional online English writing coach and grammar nazi, and is happily blowing her hard-earned money on scuba-diving while she can still carry an air tank.
    BTS becomes my larger-than-life experience, as PH ARMY parties
    Passions and ObsessionsVideo
    March 17, 2022

    BTS becomes my larger-than-life experience, as PH ARMY parties

    By Alya B. Honasan
    BTS dark cinema pulsates with ARMY bombs. (Photo by Tinkerbell Poblete) The author (middle), fellow ARMYs Nikko Dizon of TheDiarist.ph and…
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    Start the year right by protecting yourself
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    March 1, 2022

    Start the year right by protecting yourself

    By Alya B. Honasan
    With another challenging year finished, one thing that is foremost on my mind is the importance of staying healthy, especially with the…
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    Malditas: Our sports heroines don’t need lipstick anymore
    Commentary
    February 4, 2022

    Malditas: Our sports heroines don’t need lipstick anymore

    By Alya B. Honasan
    Hidilyn Diaz was all grit (and sexy armpits). Okay, full disclosure: When I was a young girl, my sports heroine was Dorothy Hamill, American…
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    Dog bite 2021: Life lessons from my furbabies
    Before I Forget
    December 24, 2021

    Dog bite 2021: Life lessons from my furbabies

    By Alya B. Honasan
    A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the…
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    My psychiatrist Dr. June Pagaduan Lopez was in the business of hope
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    November 26, 2021

    My psychiatrist Dr. June Pagaduan Lopez was in the business of hope

    By Alya B. Honasan
    (This is a version of the eulogy the author read during a memorial mass last November 23 for Dr. June Pagaduan Lopez. Photographs are from…
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    When BTS owned the night
    Passions and Obsessions
    November 23, 2021

    When BTS owned the night

    By Alya B. Honasan
    BTS ready for ‘Butter’ in AMA (From BTS_official Twitter) TRUST BTS to drive away any blues, in their most uncanny way of being…
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    Thresher sharks welcome me back in Malapascua—and how
    Art/Style/Travel Diaries
    November 1, 2021

    Thresher sharks welcome me back in Malapascua—and how

    By Alya B. Honasan
    The author (middle row, right, with red bandanna) with her friends and the Devocean crew making the ‘shark’ sign It’s not easy to go…
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    I’m missing BTS in LA
    Passions and ObsessionsVideo
    October 29, 2021

    I’m missing BTS in LA

    By Alya B. Honasan
    Jimin in ‘Permission to Dance’ (BigHit Entertainment FB) I’M writing this after watching yet another uplifting online concert by my…
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    Prof. Eric Torres: My English teacher
    Persona
    October 1, 2021

    Prof. Eric Torres: My English teacher

    By Alya B. Honasan
    In attendance during the tribute to Prof. Torres were his US-based brother Alfredo Torres, as well as colleagues, students, and mentees…
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    PH theater not giving up: ‘This world, these conditions—this is our story’
    Passions and ObsessionsUncategorized
    August 16, 2021

    PH theater not giving up: ‘This world, these conditions—this is our story’

    By Alya B. Honasan
    IT was in the midst of a kerfuffle over the comments of a young indie film director (who was never quite heard from again, it seems)—that…
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