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Accents

ACCENTS

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC IN OUR Christian calendar, we have a Good Friday, and never ever is it black. We reflect and pray in the Friday...

ACCENTS

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC Before the curtain closes… IF WILLIAM Wordsworth (1770-1850) could write Intimations of Immortality, why can I not write Intimations of Mortality on the...

ACCENTS

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC Big 3 little words: “humane, just, fraternal” (Reprinted below is the column that clinched the COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR award to Julia Carreon...

ACCENTS: NEVER AGAIN!

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC ON September 21, 1972, a day of infamy in Philippine history, Ferdinand Marcos proclaimed Martial Law. This year, September 21, 2014, the 42nd...

ACCENTS: IFFSM: Appalled and enraged

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC SEPTEMBER 14 as I write this is short of a day in the six-month anniversary of the unsolved murder of Romeo Capalla,...

ACCENTS: Grandmothering

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC BEING here on the other side of the globe — in what others call Uncle Sam country — without full grasp of...

ACCENTS: A brighter day for little Juan and Juana

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC A SMALL cry breaks forth from little Juan or little Juana. More endearingly, call the baby Juanito or Juanita. However you name...

ACCENTS: A brighter day for little Chonalyn

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC JULY 27, 2014 was a day teetering between bright and bleak — the day when Philippine officials welcomed the birth of our...

ACCENTS: ‘Ang mamatay ng dahil sa iyo’

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC MISTY. I just couldn’t help being misty-eyed as I typed the title of this column. Sweet and bitter memories intermittently played up in...

ACCENTS: SONA, SOPA or SONAT-TA?

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC AS a fourth grader in the San Antonio-San Nicolas Elementary School (SASNES), my alma mater, I recall how the teacher would repudiate...