6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (289+ words) After I lost Chi-chi, my dachshund, in April, I realized there were so many shared human-dog activities our family and friends had with our pets that people would ask where she was if she was absent. In response, people would…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (645+ words) In 2008, Dr. Mark Tucker, my dissertation adviser, arrived late to our meeting. He had taken a walk around the block several times to let off steam, and had come in looking both defeated and incensed. He had returned corrected essays…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) Last week, as monsoons bore down, I taught my Creativity and Problem Awareness classes online. It is tiring to teach online when I have to work with nearly 70 students across three sections. We make do with Zoom, a chat box…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (683+ words) Shootings in schools have, until recently, been thought of as something “Western” or even American. Now that we’ve been having a spate of such shootings in the Philippines, we have the usual rush to come up with last-minute remedies to…...