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My Inquirer column today is on how Pagasa named our typhoons. Would you believe one is called "Zigzag"?
https://opinion.inquirer.net/184846/a...





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Thanks to Felice Prudente Sta

Thanks to Felice Prudente Sta. Maria's profile pic, I was able to identify this random photo in my food files as the practice kitchen in the Philippine Normal School, circa 1910, In this kitchen dominated by a huge exhaust future teachers of, what we know today as, Home Economics learned cooking and how to manage a home.
We who live in the age of convection and microwave ovens will find the earthenware palayok and kalan quaint. I can't cook with an electric or convection top and prefer the...

CAN YOU READ THESE UNIQUE SIGNATURES?

CAN YOU READ THESE UNIQUE SIGNATURES?

Many of my students cannot read cursive, almost all of them cannot write in cursive. To give them a sense of my work I ask them to transcribe 19th century manuscripts in Tagalog. When they say the task is difficult, I reply you have not even tried reading documents from the 17th and 18th centuries!

The most complicated 21st century signature [Inset Lower Left] I know was from the late Ludovico D. Badoy, who was Executive Director when I was Chair of t...

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Solidaridad bookshop@60.

One evening I asked National Artist F. Sionil Jose what it was like to grow old,. To get a feel of it and retirement I asked if I could try on his wheelchair.

Frankie Jose was the light and life of Solidaridad Bookstore, that celebrates its 60th anniversary today. It rose to become the cultural heart of Ermita. I owe a lot to Frankie and Tessie, the bookshop, and the kindred spirits who gathered there. It was a place where I felt that my person and my work was...

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My Inquirer column today on Balut, Penoy, Abnoy.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/184754/b...





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Juan Luna in the San Agustin Crypt

Juan Luna in the San Agustin Crypt.
37 years ago, I brought my students to Intramuros, where the visual aids are bigger than life.
In the crypt of San Agustin church, I pointed out plot 73 where the painter Juan Luna was buried, and moved on to the other exhibits. On our way out of the crypt, twenty minutes later, I saw one of the students still standing, staring at plot 73. I tapped her gently on the shoulder, and said we were moving to the next hall. Our short conversation changed my lif...

My Inquirer column today on largely untapped library resources for Philippine history

My Inquirer column today on largely untapped library resources for Philippine history.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/184684/h...



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Before Keynote, Powerpoint, LCD projectors, and fancy slide transitions we had this--a noisy slide carousel

Before Keynote, Powerpoint, LCD projectors, and fancy slide transitions we had this--a noisy slide carousel.
Imagine when I started in the late 1980's this was cutting edge technology.



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This globe is updated to show WPS rather than SCS

This globe is updated to show WPS rather than SCS



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