Safe travels, Tito Tesoro
Only 90 days ago, Mark and I stayed at PatisTito Garden Cafe in Laguna--our first stop of an intensive ten-day stay in the Philippines for the NVM/Narita Gonzalez Writers' Centennial Workshop. In the photo above, Tito, Mark, and I were at Casa Escudero. Tito wanted to give us the experience of having lunch on the river. ON the river: not in a boat, not on the banks of the river, ON the river, feet submerged, water moving in current beneath you. You fixed a plate at the bu
Not by Chance
"Not by Chance." This would have been my choice for the title but my editors at PositivelyFilipino.com thought otherwise. Here is my piece on Natividad (Nati) Delson. We worked on this for eight months. Of all the writing I've done, the process of growing this particular story showed me another facet of my voice, my role, as a writer. It further defines the position in which I find myself, in my various roles in our human community, again and again: "a conduit between two
