Chasing Happy by Adelle Chua
Chasing muses
The term “friend” is an equalizer. It puts on the same category your immediate family, your partner, your relatives, your...
A continuing conversation
In Tacloban City on Thursday, Jan. 21, the Center for Community Journalism and Development, DRRNet and the Australian Embassy-The Asia...
Pondering aging
The New Year brings with it some hope and enthusiasm about turning a new leaf. We’ve heard so many things...
Running out of time
Four women in their eighties traveled from Mapanique, Tarlac to a restaurant on Maria Orosa Street in Manila on Wednesday,...
Charmed
On New Year’s Eve as I was washing the dinner dishes, it dawned on me that this was the year...
Invisible snowflakes
Take a group of four women, all pushing 40, with last (maiden) names starting with either B or C. They...
A grown-up’s Christmas
Christmas is supposed to occasion warm, fuzzy feelings. It is that time of the year we look forward to the...
After Paris
The Guardian gave a vivid description of what transpired in Paris over the weekend during the conclusion of the 21st...
At home in a hidden place
If, at first, you don’t find what you’re looking for, don’t give up. It’s not in that mid-rise building with...
Unfinished business
Commissioner Heidi Mendoza had it all planned out. She was supposed to stay put until 2018 to complete her term...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.