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Gone are the silent nights. The usual quiet evenings at the New Mexico State University pond outside my window has become a thing of the past. Blame the Pokemon Go craze, tens and tens of poke goers now envelop the pond with their smart phones’ screens flickering like fireflies. It…
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How to live life happily and fulfilled? Most often, I’d get suggestions like: make a contribution by working hard in a work you love; be in the know and intelligent; gather a surplus; love your family above your friends, your cellphone, your dog, your career; and progress in the firm…
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It was midday on Friday last week and while I was having lunch, I was startled by a noise of something that seemed to have banged the glass door of my porch. Curious, I immediately stopped eating, pushed back my chair and stood up, and checked what the noise was…
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Note: Below is a guest post from my Costa Rican friend, Christopher Solis Ocampo. Chris is a PhD student in Biochemistry at South Dakota State University. Nowadays, I have been finding myself under so much struggle and hard work. Here is the thing: I have been thinking myself as somebody…
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I do not know exactly who wrote this poem about brokenness and betrayal of trust. While browsing my little booklet that I’ve been keeping for a decade now, I realized that I actually copied this poem from an airline magazine on my way to the Philippines from the Netherlands. The…
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Three years of writing for the SDSU Collegian Newspaper is already an achievement for me as an amateur writer. But the sparkle each article brought to my eyes was not all-bright every time. The months of making stories and publishing them on paper and online rendered more frowns than smiles…
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I am a Filipino. I was born in Argao. The place has yet to be swayed by civilization and advancement or exploitation perhaps. In that southern part of Cebu, Philippines, houses are situated beneath green slopes, mostly concealed under a lush shade that seems to have existed long before my…
Read moreDo your friends take your childhood disappointments and misadventures seriously? As for mine, sadly, never mind. In a conversation I had with close friends yesterday, never have they been sorry about my stories spiced up with sour remembrances of days past. Am I inadequate with attention? Fine if they laughed….
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