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All My Accidental Christmas Cheers

It is harder to feel Christmas when you’re older. The holidays harden into a mercenary plot that defies whatever magical understanding we…

6h ago

All My Accidental Christmas Cheers

6h ago

The Beauty of Old Houses

The old house along Acias Pinili Street in Tinago was easy to overlook, even if you’ve lived in Dumaguete for so long. We tend to avert our…

Dec 14

The Beauty of Old Houses

Dec 14

Creativity is Work

I remember this one particular low point in my life as a writer and as a cultural worker. I once put together a publication — let’s be…

Dec 7

Creativity is Work

Dec 7

A Second Homecoming for Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

She is one of the best writers I know — although when you mention that to her, Elsa Victoria Martinez Coscolluela would demur. Once I…

Nov 29

A Second Homecoming for Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

Nov 29

The Dumaguete Inato as Life

This is, admittedly, a generalization — and many exceptions abound! But the following are things non-Dumagueteños — especially poor Manila…

Nov 16

The Dumaguete Inato as Life

Nov 16

A Walk to Taclobo

Calle San Jose Extension in Taclobo in the early evening of Friday surprisingly buzzes with the lightest traffic, and somehow I find it…

Nov 8

A Walk to Taclobo

Nov 8

Two American Women in Negros, One War

A war will always be ripe for stories. Always of atrocities and sacrifices, and always of perseverance and often of hope. World War II —…

Sep 28

Two American Women in Negros, One War

Sep 28

Why I Hated Basketball: On Carlos Yulo’s Olympic Wins and Gendered Sports

[Originally published on Rappler, and based on this short post.]

Aug 7

Why I Hated Basketball: On Carlos Yulo’s Olympic Wins and Gendered Sports

Aug 7

July’s Most Hated

If you’re keeping count and are chronically online, socialite Cat Arambulo-Antonio’s merry excursion through the floods that has recently…

Jul 27

July’s Most Hated

Jul 27

The Heritage That Goes Into Sinina Dumagueteña

Tonight, May 11, as part of Dumaguete’s Heritage Month celebration and also its ongoing effort to commemorate the diamond jubilee of its…

May 11

The Heritage That Goes Into Sinina Dumagueteña

May 11

Ian Rosales Casocot

Ian Rosales Casocot

Interpreter of hamsters. Author of Beautiful Accidents: Stories and Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror

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