I will always be that human who writes. That one who creates from imagination, and commune with characters and symbols and mind-made truths. The one who sits in a coffee show and use human noise to in...

First, A Digital BackgroundI re-joined TikTok recently. Re-joined because I had been there, and I left. But before I jumped into my own personal observations about this AI-generated social media syste...

TikTok video by FLIP-LIT

On Aug. 4, 2026 the remaining staff at AAWW received layoff emails from the newly-announced Interim Executive Director Ed Lin.

He was not without his opinions. War veterans have much to say about the countries they fight for. My taste for justice came from him. Perhaps fate itself intervened to make sure I became the chro...

Bino Realuyo memorializes Jose Rizal in his blog. Rizal's birthday is on June 19th. His memory is 164 years old. Happy birthday, Jose P. Rizal.

The late literary critic and professor Leonard Casper was from my father’s time.  He was two years older than my father, born 1921.  Both served during World War II.  Theirs was a generation of men th...

In the Philippines, we have this saying "lukso ng dugo." Lukso (jump/leap), Dugo (blood), the ethereal mesh of "leap of faith" and "blood is thicker than water." The things we do for things we can't...

Easier to say, there / are too many poets and there aren’t enough rebels. (poetry)