The Spy in the Sandwich Eats the Sun

Life throws you punches, the grind can be backbreaking, and doubts will forever confound and dishearten. But thank God for friends who belie...

So, when I lived in Japan 26 years ago I encountered natto for the first time. It is staple breakfast food for many Japanese but for me i...

This is in celebration of National Literature Month and also National Food Month!

Celebrate National Literature Month with us with a series of events this April, culminating in the first ever Duma LitFest! The literary f...

Most countries have standardized naming conventions [some even have regulations controlling the creation of names, like Japan]. But the Phil...

This is ready to go to my copyeditor! It is a phone book.

I rarely share poems I’ve written — this is really not my genre, although Cesar Aquino once blurbed my personal anthology Bamboo Girls by p...

This is the oldest photograph I’ve ever sourced of Dumaguete. For the sake of transparency, I’ve edited the image a bit to enhance the det...

The Atlantic just dropped their list of The Great American Novels ... Goodness, I have only read 25 of these. Must really go back to s...

I’m going back to meds starting today. Been having enormous difficulty concentrating since December, and my usual tricks to go around the ...

What a loss. I hope she makes it to the Oscar In Memoriam, if only to commemorate her Cannes Best Actress win in 2016. [But that's not l...

All film enthusiasts/film students have their edition of Film Art . This was mine in college, and I still have it. RIP, David Bordwell.