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Essay: My Blessings Jar 2020
By Sylvia Hubilla Round Rock, TX The first thing I do on the first day of a New Year, is open my Blessings Jar and pour out all the little notes of gratitude for blessings received in the year that just passed. And then I enjoy reading all the blessings received and prayers answered. My […]
Despite fear, poverty, death – many of us emerged as creative and cohesive in 2020
2020 Yearender Editor’s Note By Marivir R. Montebon Dear 2020, I am not bitter as I say goodbye to you tonight. As everything, whether good or bad, moves and passes on, so do you. I certainly am hopeful that covid19 would have gone away with you too. Despite the chaos, fear, and exacerbation of poverty […]
Felix Manuel: Ms. Universe pageant 2021 may be disrupted for the first time by COVID19
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – The prestigious Miss Universe pageant may likely not happen in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. If so, it will be the first time that this world-wide beauty contest will be disrupted 69 years since its inception in 1952. “There is no word yet if the pageant will […]
Precious Christmas with family at this time of Covid19
By Vanette Colmenares New York – It’s the day after Christmas and I was so stuffed. Two days of non-stop eating meat and sweets was getting into me big time – so I relaxed and enjoyed the pictures of friends and families across the globe on Facebook. What do I notice first? The food, of […]
Friends boost Issues & Inspiration show well into the challenging 2021
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – Call it cheesy but love and friendship are all it takes to make life better in the midst of a crisis, or crises such as the one inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. Greetings of glee and excitement are the best gifts from friends for the digital show Issues […]
FilAm Teachers: Independent learning could be a new ethic after the pandemic
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – A silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic would be a generation of independent learners. Two FilAm teachers here said that increased independent learning is a result of the current online classes. Math teacher Ramil Buenaventura said during an interview with Issues & Inspiration digital talk show, noted that […]
Philippine Tourism: How can it survive in the time of covid19?
Interview with Joebert Opulencia, president of Orientours, by OSM! Online Magazine and Issues & Inspiration. Excerpts of our interview: 1. Please give us an update on how the tourism industry and tourism operators are doing in the Philippines. Is it beginning to perk up despite covid19? JO: We are all in for a long ride, […]
It’s a Butt Time
By Vanette Colmenares If you are Filipino, stocking on toilet paper is the least on your mind. Water always made us feel cleaner and more hygienic. New York – Recently, when projections of a second wave of covid19 surge grabbed the headlines, people again slowly started to hoard toilet paper. What’s with toilet paper? If […]
Immigration Talk, Techie gifts, Pinoy songs by bi-racial kid Trinity Bosley on Issues & Inspiration Show Debut
Editor’s Notes By Marivir R. Montebon New York – At least there were two take-aways during the debut episode of the FilAm-led Issues & Inspiration digital show: hope for a path to citizenship for American dreamers (beneficiaries of the Deferred Action on Child Arrivals) and inspiration from a bubbly bi-racial child who can pull off […]
Life-and-death lessons that change you for the better
By Marivir R. Montebon “The death of that beloved youth and his separation from you have caused the utmost sorrow and grief; for he winged his flight in the flower of his age and the bloom of his youth to the heavenly nest. But he hath been freed from this sorrow-stricken shelter and hath turned […]
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