Between Grab and Taxi
By Herman M. Lagon “Sa Lapuz lang, Manong.” Those simple words could spark a smooth, quiet journey home or a tense negotiation that would make even t...
Staff WriterNovember 20, 20254 min
IMPULSES
By Herman M. Lagon “Sa Lapuz lang, Manong.” Those simple words could spark a smooth, quiet journey home or a tense negotiation that would make even t...
Somewhere between memorizing the multiplication table and being told to “show your solution,” millions of students believe math is out to get them. It...
There are moments when a word meant to uplift begins to sting. I felt that recently at the PGCA–Iloilo 2025 seminar at Iloilo Grand Hotel as Philippin...
You often notice them before they even say a word. The teacher who starts the day with a simple nod, the janitor whose smile never misses a morning, t...
Ron Garan saw Earth from space for real—not just in science books or videos. It looked like it was glowing. Like it was alive. But what surprised him ...
By Herman M. Lagon A teacher in Bulacan opens her payslip on a Friday morning and feels the familiar sting: another few thousand gone to taxes. She si...
There are storms that soak us, and storms that should sober us. Typhoon Tino did both. Cebu’s grief—cars stacked like toys, homes swallowed whole, fam...
There are cities that drown with every headline, and there are cities that rise quietly with every storm. Iloilo, in part, belongs to the latter, but ...
Fear has always been humanity’s oldest operating system. People once feared the wheel would destroy old ways. Later, they thought electricity might wa...