Looking Back

Todos los santos

Long before we had Loyola Memorial Park, St. Peter’s, Eternal Gardens, Heritage Memorial Park and…

From ‘aswang’ to EJK

Last week, I stayed in the 432-year-old Hotel zum Ritter St. Georg in Heidelberg. I…

Learning then and now

Some people or organizations do not give much thought to names and, more importantly, acronyms.…

Our stolen heritage

The recovery from eBay of a historical document stolen from the National Library of the…

Rizal in Frankfurt

The Philippine booth at the Frankfurt Bookfair has a display of the latest titles from…

Be a traveler, not a tourist

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in adulthood, and…

Traces of history in Intramuros

Intramuros was one of my secret weapons as a rookie teacher. Here, the visual aids…

Prewar beauty queen

Beauty contest bloopers on social media make for light entertainment to end a long working…

Our forgotten maritime heritage

Audience questions after my presentations, in Jakarta, on the evolution of the shape of the…

Early PH-Indonesia relations

An archipelagic nation like the Philippines should have a maritime museum, to connect the land-bound…