Man On The Side

Strasbourg, France The way people have been talking about 2016 you’d think it was the worst year on record. Celebrities died, a demag...

The main train station in Kyoto, Japan When I was a kid I remember days when my mom would go off to work or out to run errands or meet...

Image from Reuters (no copyright infringement intended) My parents are from Leyte, which is also the home province of Imelda Romualdez...

The rooftops of Rome from the Musei Capitolini You grew up thinking you were funny-looking. You had bad skin, your hair wasn’t quite ri...

First, she was my boss. The workplace doesn’t exactly lend itself to the establishment of ties beyond the immediate and superficial, an...

This story first came out in The Manila Times in March 2012. The original version has since disappeared from the web, which is why I'm ...

In which Pedi and I check out the Italian and French Rivieras, including Ventimiglia, Italy; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and Nice, France in one d...