ENDEAVOR Reels accessed from Facebook enable viewers, myself included, to listen to highly eloquent honor graduates deliver valedictory speeches that truly inspire and edify. They share inspiring stories on how they pulled up bootstraps as they struggled against awesome challenges — making ends...
ENDEAVOR Recent social media posts by two popular broadcasters influenced me to write today about how my college education at the University of the Philippines in Diliman has greatly influenced the course of my adulthood. First, there was Atom Araullo’s photo on Instagram with his parents, Mike...
ENDEAVOR My seven-year-old grandson recently sat down with crayons and bond paper to write a letter — not to Santa Claus or a favorite superhero, but to the leaders of Israel and Iran — through their resident ambassadors in the Philippines. “Please stop fighting,” he wrote in big, careful...
ENDEAVOR ’Our family holiday last week featured two highlights: a visit to Harry Potter theme park in Tokyo and the CupNoodles Museum in Yokohama. Batman and Superman were the superheroes of my childhood and teen years. Visiting my lola’s house, I first experienced watching these superheroes...
ENDEAVOR When I was a new father in the early eighties, I bought my pre-school daughter a Snakes and Ladders board game. I did not know this then, I just had an overall sense that, as explained now by Google Search: “The board game Snakes and Ladders, also known as Moksha Patam, was created by...
ENDEAVOR Beyond the auspicious outcome of the 2025 midterm elections, the opposition is gearing itself for the next three major electoral battles, namely, the 2028, 2034, and 2040 presidential elections. Adopting a long-term perspective will enable the formulation of a wholistic plan that will...
ENDEAVOR After reviewing the results of last week’s midterm elections, what insights or lessons may be gained? First, there is a shift in voter sentiment toward seeking alternatives to the Marcos-Duterte dualism. Second, the significance of gaining electoral ascendancy in the Lingayen-Lucena...
ENDEAVOR Pope Leo XIV is the sixth pope I have known throughout my life. Thanks to social media, and to his being the first American Pope, he could well become the most well-known Pope of the modern era. Social media posts on the new Pope have proliferated on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and...
ENDEAVOR On Thursday, May 1, 10 persons, including four children, were killed and more than 37 others were injured in a multiple-vehicle collision at the SCTEX Tarlac City toll plaza. Three days later, on Sunday, May 4, two persons, a five-year-old girl and a 29 year-old Overseas Filipino Worker...
ENDEAVOR Thirty-two months after its launch in September 2023, SERVE — a book co-authored by 19 campus journalists who witnessed the First Quarter Storm of 1970 as student activists, and chronicled the Filipino people’s struggle against systemic ills that stymied the country’s progress...
ENDEAVOR In January 2015, I met Pope Francis and received his blessings when he came to the Philippines. Ten months later, in November 2015, I met him anew when I joined President Benigno S. Aquino III in a personal call at Domus Sanctae Marthae (Casa Santa Marta) in the Vatican where the Holy...
ENDEAVOR After all these years, it’s only while writing this column last week that I came upon an interesting discovery. Ceferino Paz Arroyo, Jr. is the real name of the late former Senator Joker Arroyo whom I admired greatly as one of the non-traditional politicians to have emerged...
