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Hubilla: Post-Valentine Poetry
Looking for love By Sylvia Hubilla Austin, Texas Finding love is not easy, some play games looking for it, ending up hurting or getting hurt. Is it worth it? Sometimes you think you have found it, and you give your heart away, only to know it’s now broken. And when you […]
Love Asks for Faith: THORNBIRD
Editor’s Note: The writer, SIMEON DUMDUM, is a Cebu-based columnist of the Cebu Daily News, a celebrated poet, and used to work as a Judge at the regional trial courts of the city. He is every editor’s favorite. OSM! reprints his essay with his permission. Valentine’s Day being just days ago, I thought that, during […]
East Meets West: GISELA DOHERTY BITZ
By Marivir R. Montebon Racial discrimination is a product of ignorance. I have not encountered a lot of racial discrimination but the few that I’ve seen are from people who are so much less educated and so much less traveled with not a lot of culture and breeding. – Gisela Doherty Bitz Some things never […]
Trustworthiness
By Marivir R. Montebon Relationships last because of trust. Nothing will ever glue a relationship more formidably than it can, whether it is a relationship between parent and child, husband and wife, friends, lovers, even boss and employees, king/queen and subjects, or president and the public. The truth is, a loving relationship is fundamentally rooted […]
Recipe for Fun: Friends, Food, and Fruit Salad
BY DEBBIE ALMOCERA Last weekend friends from Chicago and West Virginia came to visit, and as usual, we had a great time cooking (mostly them), eating (mostly I), and laughing. Those of you who are familiar with Filipino get-togethers know that this cyclical pattern of eating and laughing is not uncommon. The opportunity to be […]
Love is in the Brain
LOVE IS IN THE… BRAIN BY DEBBIE ALMOCERA It was probably close to my last years in grade school when I got hooked on romance novels that epitomize hopelessly-in-love heroines and the ever so-stoic out-of-this-world-drop-dead-gorgeous heroes. Reading these books took me to new heights of imagination and expectation that someday I would be swept off […]
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