There’s so much pain because of Putin “The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.” – Adolf Hitler. “And I can see no reason why anyone should suppose that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still…put to… Read More »
“Through the years and more than a few disappointments, trials, and errors, I have come to see gender-based violence as the literal and figurative foot on women’s necks.” – Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. “Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.” – Bee Gees By Rey Moreno I… Read More »
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows!” Walter Gibson I lost my wife to stomach cancer two years ago. We didn’t have any children. I loved my wife and our marriage was rock solid. But that missing piece of having an expanded family, of taking care of children and watching them grow… Read More »
“He could only touch here and there, like lightning glancing on the highest peaks of mountains, but which left the deep clefts of valleys, the oceans and the clamoring rivers, in complete and shadowy darkness.” – Taylor Caldwell, The Final Hour (1944). HERE I feel fine being alone, really, here in my room, where no one bothers me,… Read More »
“How would you live your life differently if you could start over, what would you do, who would you be, where would you go, what would you embrace?” – Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (2020) We need rituals for without them we are lost. One of these rituals is our list of resolutions for the New… Read More »
“I’ve far outlived my usefulness.” Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (2020). Alone Odd guy I am. Social nature has not spoilt me. I long for quietness, A peaceful music to behold. I’m judged to be different, Bear it with stings and bruises. I grew up not knowing my friends, Family is all I have! The Winding… Read More »
“Every man is nothing more or less than the demands of the world, and that the more a man demands of the world, the bigger the magnitude of his success or failure in life.” Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise (2021) Creativity I have been told it must be there Within the confines of my soul. Open my… Read More »
“Every man is nothing more or less than the demands of the world, and that the more a man demands of the world, the bigger the magnitude of his success or failure in life.” Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise (2021) By Rey Moreno Creativity I have been told it must be there Within the confines of my… Read More »
A Life Profiled: Andres Bonifacio “Kaya, O mga kababayan! Ating idilat ang nabulag na kaisipan, at kusang igugol sa kagalingan ang ating lakas sa tunay at lubos na pag-asa na magtagumpay sa minimithing kaginhawan ng bayan tinubuan.” – Andres Bonifacio, Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog. He is called the Great Plebeian, the Supremo and Founder of the… Read More »
“And what is this writing, anyway, as a human activity or as a vocation, or as a profession, or as a hack job, or perhaps even as an art, and why do so many people feel compelled to do it?” Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002). Unless you are being paid to… Read More »