Tag: island
member name: Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr.
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October 26, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Against a colorful mosaic speckled with various cultural legacies from various civilizations around the world, she had sprung from a hardy race that upholds men as the reason for its being.
Yet, . . . more
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December 30, 2007 10:00 PM EST --
Never experienced this in a long time.
Is this magic or what?
Or is it just plain old sappy me?
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May 05, 2007 08:14 AM EDT --
I. A Mother’s Mother
Against a colorful mosaic speckled with various cultural legacies from various civilizations around the world, she had sprung from a hardy race that upholds men as the . . . more
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October 20, 2007 05:27 AM EDT --
My mother is building a house on an island I knew she once loathed. Now she tells me, without fail on each of our weekly phone conversations, she envisions it to be our ancestral home.
She says she . . . more
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October 22, 2007 05:16 AM EDT --
Here is an attempt at rediscovering the lost summers of my childhood: woods whispering secrets, susurrations of streams, pissing contests, slingshots: just about my only refuge from these endless unsettling . . . more
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January 02, 2008 11:58 PM EST --
Siquijor is this small: one can take a full trip around the island with just a single cigarette stick. And since there is no snarling traffic to thread through, by the time one gets back to his point of . . . more
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October 16, 2006 01:49 AM EDT --
By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with . . . more
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November 09, 2006 07:59 AM EST --
By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with . . . more
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November 09, 2006 08:02 AM EST --
By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with . . . more
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September 28, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
Decided to check out a couple of travel agencies regarding air-travel promos.
I thought I saw wads of those colorful bills sticking to the in-side of their glass wallings in one of our aimless mall-tours. . . . more
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October 22, 2006 10:05 PM EDT --
<Part I: The Shrine>
Mother
When you are the son of a zealot, you have no choice but prepare yourself for sainthood. From the time you knew how to read, spiritual literatures abound . . . more
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November 03, 2006 01:16 AM EST --
I.
Where I come from, it was easy to believe in what neighbors said because we trusted each other enough. There was a shared understanding, a kinship of some sort that one was there for the other – . . . more
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October 30, 2006 11:58 PM EST --
(Click here for Part 2)
Earlier that morning, Virginia woke up to a clangor of tins and pans. Levis on his sleeping spot at the opposite corner was still asleep. Right below where she slept, Lester was . . . more
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November 03, 2006 10:45 PM EST --
I.
Where I come from, it was easy to believe in what neighbors said because we trusted each other enough. There was a shared understanding, a kinship of some sort that one was there for the other – . . . more
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October 30, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
AT THE BEHEST of the younger of her two sons, Virginia looked remorseful after she approved their trip to the island. That was on a Saturday evening while listening to a flash report on the radio about . . . more
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October 29, 2006 04:12 AM EST --
AT THE BEHEST of the younger of her two sons, Virginia looked remorseful after she approved their trip to the island. That was on a Saturday evening while listening to a flash report on the radio about . . . more
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