Tag: Marilyn Arayata

Learning to ride a bike may not be as demanding as learning to drive a car, but both require that ...

Aren’t your best pictures the ones in which you wear a beautiful smile? Presentable clothes and a good posture are ...

For stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister and her family, Jean Valjean spent 19 years in jail. ...

WERE there instances when you realized that you could have said or done something foolish and regrettable if you had ...

Even in textbooks, researchers found that more empowered roles are assigned to men, and they are portrayed as achievers and ...

In a marathon, you don’t hear spectators saying “Boo!” or “Ah, wala, wala, wala!” No taunting or teasing, only encouraging ...

SOME witches do not ride a broomstick. They appear just like everybody else. They smile, shower you with compliments, and ...

WHO is exempted from heartbreaks, illnesses, embarrassing moments, unfair criticisms, financial difficulties, failures, and natural calamities? Certain things, people, events, ...

If discipline is “doing the right thing even when nobody is looking”, kindness is doing a good thing for somebody ...

SPENDING many years in the academe exposed me to countless children and teen-agers with different backgrounds and personalities. My own ...

ANYBODY can write for or against a social or political issue, but if you really want to persuade your readers, ...

IT used to be only about three feet tall because it was constantly pruned. When the pruning process was neglected ...

MRS. Rosalia Baylon, how to use the dictionary; Mr. Alberto Custodio, using several textbooks in preparing for a quiz bee; ...

OF course, rejection hurts, and a series of rejections hurts even more – rejection of a job or loan application, ...

IF suicide is preventable, why has it become “a major public health crisis in the US and worldwide”? According to ...

OUR santol tree had to be cut, and the roots “scooped”. The trunk was not that thick, so I was ...