Twelve Years with Sheila

I feel blessed to be with Sheila for the last twelve years. Our daughter Giap will turn eight this year. … More

Introducing Mong Palatino’s “It is Out there: Politics and Digital Resistance in the Philippines”

[I made the following remarks during the book launch of Mong Palatino’s “It is Out there: Politics and Digital Resistance … More

My father Emmanuel “Anol” Mongaya, age 61, passed away on July 8, 2022, at 12:08 a.m. He had been in … More

I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Mangoes from Guimaras are celebrated as one of the sweetest in … More

A feature article about me came out in the Iloilo-based daily The News Today the other week. This is the … More

Originally posted on Kapirasong Kritika:
“Nabalitaan mo na ang nangyari kay Sheena?” tanong ng isang kaibigan sa text. At nalungkot na…

Last week, my good friend Daryl wrote a poem that he dubbed as a rejoinder to a silly piece of … More

“Mahadlok mi kung ulan kay mudako ang tubig.” There used to be some houses by the river shore where some … More

We all too often create our own conception of a thing that is removed from the reality of that object … More

One of the things I do very early in the morning when I wake up is to read the local … More

Originally posted in my former blog earlier this year: Recalling the “Jabidah massacre” that ignited four decades of conflict in … More