MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What must it be like to be so wanted by senators, DILG, Napolcom, media (field reporters, editors, opinion writers), and the public in general? The announcement that there would be “one name” on the list of DILG Secretary Ed Año came like a breath of fresh air... and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza You had a good run, Ricky Lo! Your life’s work put you in the shadow of celebrities and movie stars, trailing them, chatting with them eyeball to eyeball, trying to catch them on a slip-up, drinking and dining with them, angling to pry a secret out of them. In the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza First thing I did when my son said he would need surgery was to ask my best friend, the prayerful one, for prayers. Her answer shocked me. “Two thousand Hail Marys,” she promised. The 2,000 Hail Marys devotion goes back to 1933. It was started by a Salesian seminarian...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza For those of us with some semblance of a job or other, Labor Day merely highlighted the despair and emptiness of life without a job, without a purpose. After all, most of us, through no fault of our own, do not have the luxury to “live to work,” we are forced to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Ana Patricia Non’s Maginhawa community pantry was a roaring success because it was spontaneous, simple, and exuberant. For triggering a tsunami of goodwill, a flood of charitable deeds, an earthquake of giving and sharing that morphed into a nationwide movement, she...
MEDIUM RARE Not the “isolationists” who are under detention waiting for their quarantines to lapse, but men and women who live without family or a significant other to make life easier or harder during pandemic times. Physical distancing being the norm and isolation facilities being law, is...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Of the virus mutating so quickly and infections rising so exponentially that as my friend observed, “the numbers now come with familiar faces.” Your son’s teachers are getting hit. His classmates, too. You’ve lost a colleague or a batchmate. A group of girls...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza “As old as time” is the saying that the rich get richer and the poor beget children. Likewise, money begets money – the bank will not give you a loan because you’re so poor that you need money. Well, this year’s list of the world’s super billionaires (in...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was an idea whose time had come, so the next idea was to stop it in its tracks, nip it in the bud, squash it like an insect. By using the power of the police to scare the law-abiding, a few of them succeeded in making the name of Ana Patricia Non a household word....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He was Italian, but the voyage he embarked on with a Portuguese-born explorer who owed his fealty to Spain would make him world-famous. But as diarist, chronicler, map-maker, linguist, and amanuensis of Ferdinand Magellan, Pigafetta made this part of the world famous,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza If you cannot think out of the box because it’s too small and crammed, you might as well think of the backyard with extra space plus sunshine and shade, maybe even a whiff of fresh air. Or something like that anyway. Red Cross Chairman and Sen. Dick Gordon must’ve...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Physical and social distancing, it’s the law! So we make people, mostly women, line up for one and a half kilometers to claim their ayuda . Being in dire straits, we can only give P4,000 maximum per family and expect them to live on that for one to two weeks. To...
