Seeking ‘youth’ in old age
ONE day I stepped into Farm to Table Restaurant to eat nothing but a vegetable-fruit salad. I had heard that chef Pauline Gorriceta-Banusing had “prescribed” the organic delicacy to her hubby Gus to k...

ONE day I stepped into Farm to Table Restaurant to eat nothing but a vegetable-fruit salad. I had heard that chef Pauline Gorriceta-Banusing had “prescribed” the organic delicacy to her hubby Gus to k...


“ALL that you need to tell the news is a nose for news.” That was one of the guidelines imparted to us Journalism studen...

TIME was when I would not eat vegetables. I had no appetite for them. Instead, I devoured meat – especially beef and por...

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” says a popular proverb traced to Greek philosopher Plato (428-348 BC) in his imm...

IN this month of April, 31 years ago, Juan “Johnny” Vego (my father) was moving from one hospital to another in a futile...

WHILE studying Journalism in a Manila university decades ago, I had a professor – the late Angel Anden – who would often...