Looking Back

Our flag in the Constitution

Lawyers are a clever lot, they can stick to the letter of the law when…

Letizia Roxas Constantino, historian

Last week, I “met” Letizia Roxas Constantino in her Quezon City home. While I missed…

Collecting as stewardship

When people marvel at my modest Filipiniana collection, I advise them that it is never…

Letters from exile

Time waits for no one. If time does not stop, can we really save time,…

AI challenge and promise

A year ago, when the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom was being…

Ysla de locos or ponientas?

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue…

Amorsolo: Chroma

What more can one say or show about Fernando Amorsolo, the first National Artist of…

First Filipino to meet the pope, 1869?

The first documented sighting of a Filipino by a pope was at the Dominican church…

19th century elections

I had my first taste of elections in the grade school classroom. We wrote out…

UniTeam then and now

When the former “UniTeam” went their separate ways, I could not help but think of…