I covered the presidential term, sailing through its choppy waters while chronicling President Cory’s wavy patterns of success and glory; laughter and grief; loss and devastation; troubles and genuine delights. Through the oppressive…

THERE is no correct or incorrect answer to that question—only an honest or dishonest one. Because you can’t deny its reality: it is about values, beliefs, love, money, integrity, generosity…

Interviews come in many ways. Some regard it as a battle, a delightful minuet. Others call it theater piece. That is why I am reluctant to write about fashion, showbiz,…

All of LA County’s sufferings come through the doors of the emergency room. Accidents, shootings, heart attacks, beatings, rapes, suicides—just as gory and heart stopping when I was covering the…

There was once a press club in the heart of a city where everyone lived in harmony with each other and their surroundings.  Photographers and writers: they were affable and comrades among…

The piece began as an act of friendship, arranged by super lawyer Roman P. Mosqueda. It was a conversation-interview supposed to draw a portrait of Dr. Mariedel Leviste, a portrait without…

Women called it “pause.”  It is a new perspective coming into view in every woman’s major life passage:  A midlife agitation, literal and poignant.  First, the gushing, like the reddening…

WHAT a noble trade, the sweeper’s trade. It consists of sweeping the filth we produce, of making our existence less infected. Mindless and ungrateful are those who use the word…

THE apple that fell far from the tree…one I could only dream of—a perfect newshen. God’s little pencil. I would have taught her to begin each work by having a…

I CAN never quell stirs of fascination, dread and longing when the house lights dim and the curtain parts, but the enjoyment of an opera can begin, not with the…

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What…

Into every story goes their dreams of becoming good reporters: writers doing good with their lives, changing the world —or at least a smaller corner of it. They also imagined that…

Summer time and the living is easy, says Gershwin. It is more mellow than autumn, more tender than spring and away from the inhospitable glare of winter. Summer has officially…

An Independence Grand Ball is like none other: nobody is there to have a good time. Everyone is there to do the room and get around. Image thinkers and label…

For such a monumental thing to be accomplished in seconds defies logic. In fact it was almost insulting, but there it was. It happened in less time than it took…

My father was the kind of man I have always dreamed of: kind to the weak, fierce to the arrogant, generous to those who loved him and ruthless so those…

IN an unprecedented show of unity, patriotism and force, spontaneous welcome filtered out of nowhere for former President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) at the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall this Memorial…

THE memory of what is irrevocably lost is the true meaning of Hell in the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri is considered as the Father of Italian Poetry. The poetry of the Comedy is immortal. …

Though the few good TV shows back home are applauded, it is dismaying that these small islands of quality are almost lost in the sea of mediocrity and outright vulgarity,…

“Few people know how to be old.” – Francois De La Rochedfoucald THEY say that  youth is wasted on the young.  This is untrue. Youth is wasted on the old, if…

You see them with a grateful heart as they walk on their hands and do somersaults with a patient’s extreme despair and suffering. They turn trauma into joy, and rage…

It is said that choice is destiny’s soulmate. You have a choice to accept or refuse, to take one turning down the crossroads to the future or another. By not…

On this big production called Mother’s Day, a whole nation of sons and daughters will pause to remember their mothers. My first knowledge of the world  and about life came…

IT was my first police beat assignment. We felt that we had no right to do what we were doing. The killing of a fellow human being was repulsive and…

“IF you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.” – Victor Hugo  One moment you’re a mother.  Then, when your children are finally all grown up, you relax…

Every fight evokes memories, and usually a story. After so many fights and so many stories, after all the fame and fortune that boxers have incurred and all the belts…