Jaime Laya

Endurance, resilience, and victory (Part A)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is a reminder of the horrors experienced by the families of a significant part of the American population, the genocide that Adolf Hitler visited on the Jewish people.

Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton, and history in rap

Even as some US cities suffer from stagnation, crime, homelessness, and wholesale shoplifting, New York City remains vibrant. On a short break the other month, some family members and I stayed a week in Manhattan. My trip is museums and while my companions were scootering in Central Park and shopping, I went museum visiting. 

Advancing in business, visioning for the arts

The mobile theater was a life-changing experience that Gimenez never forgot. 

A public glimpse of private gems

A remarkable couple, banker Edwin Bautista and academician Aileen B. Bautista, teamed up to form a unique collection of Philippine material heritage that the perceptive scholar and writer Florencio “Floy” Quintos declares “gives a deeper meaning and resonance to the narrative of an evolving nationhood.” 

Lessons of a long life

For this article, the 600th of 'Wala Lang,' the author shares some thoughts that with luck might help make the reader physically, emotionally, and financially content in later life.