Finding home in Melbourne
What draws someone to build a new life across the world? For me, it was Melbourne, a colorful city with a world of cultures in one place, seemingly borderless and
What draws someone to build a new life across the world? For me, it was Melbourne, a colorful city with a world of cultures in one place, seemingly borderless and
Michele Majul-Ibarra has been living in Canada for 30 years now. Yet, she celebrates Christmas “pretty much the same as when I was in the Philippines,” she said. “We go
“A Philippine Christmas is incomparable,” declared Lady Vismanos, who has been working in Germany as a nurse for six years now. In Tübingen, where she lives, Christmas isn’t as special,
While Roma Famoso-Galon continues to celebrate Christmas the way she did when she was still living in the Philippines, the holidays are more special now that she is in Guam,
When I moved to Sweden a couple of years ago, people warned me of winter—not the snow, snow is wonderful, but of the darkness. Coming from Manila where summer is
Farmers in Maligcong, Bontoc, Mt. Province, have started repairing the damage wrought by past tropical cyclones on the Maligcong Rice Terraces, a declared National Cultural Treasure (NCT). The terraces are
Janice de Belen, who is most likely known to the younger generation as the subject of the viral “Anak ni Janice” meme, is actually hoping to reunite with the child
Despite experiencing a devastating loss at Christmastime in her youth, Jenny Yngente Macabenta says the holiday season remains a special time for her. “Christmas holds a special place in my
On a team-building trip taken by my journalism org, my club moderator gave only one rule: No one was allowed to die. What was allowed, however, was practically everything else—injuries
The Philippine Daily Inquirer has been more than a newspaper to me; it has been a companion, a mentor, and an inspiration. My journey with the Inquirer began when I
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