By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento Who or what is a Karen? According to an American English dictionary: “Karen is a pejorative slang term for an...

By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento Almost 80 years ago, my granduncle Sen. Tomas V. Confesor of Cabatuan, Iloilo, had what would now be called a...

By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento The Filipino sociological phenomena of nagoyo, na-once, na-gancho, nabudol affirm our common humanity and...

By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento The British poet W.H. Auden wrote that “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Yet it was a man of letters, the poet...