ASIDE from my wallet, abanico, and handphone, there should always be a book in my bag. Its absence means I wouldn’t be able to read while…
Inevitably in my narratives, I turn my focus on my partner of 42 years, Rolly Fernandez. Our best times are when we’re eating and…
LOOK, I may no longer be able to pull all-nighters of writing and editing. Text I could churn out in a couple of hours some years ago may…
Text and photos by Vincen Gregory Yu
The famed Japanese pines of Matsushima.
Imagine El Nido, but more subdued, less imposing, fun-sized…
(The author was brand manager of the defunct ABS-CBN Publishing, which published such titles as MeTro magazine, then brand manager of…
When did I last read or hear the word “soirée”? Easily when we girls from a Catholic high school would arrange with boys from a similar…
WHAT is it about pickleball that makes me want to live on the courts?
I ask myself this a lot. Sometimes when I’m packing my bag for the…
From the mall’s top floor came the distinctive sounds of the gong, cymbals and drums one afternoon. A lion dance was in progress…
42 years with these ‘paramedics of prayer’
WITH this entry, I’m starting my column here in TheDiarist.ph, collections of random…
I remember the feel of my grandmother’s gnarled hand tousling the top of my head the morning after I came from a haircut supervised by my…
