• Which Matters More: Content or Delivery?

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    ‘You think in a complex manner. I mean, your way of writing leans toward academic,’ my best friend said. ‘What’s wrong with well verified information?’ I argued. ‘Well, readers often care more about how you say something, your voice, not what you are saying,’ he replied. ‘Are you saying that delivery is more important than

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  • Back to Back: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Catcher in the Rye

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    When it aches, just let me read. Like most women, I suffer from menstrual cramps almost every month. Today, I did, but I’m not going to bore you whining about the agony. Your time is too precious for that – so is mine. What surprised me were my book choices when I was in pain: The

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  • Peach – The Dragonfly Chaser

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    Peach’s eyes sparked at the sight of stick-like silvery-winged insects resting on some blades of grass. Dragonflies strayed in the grassy part of Payatas when rubbish had not yet occupied a vast area of it. Young as she was, Peach saw elegance in dragonflies.  She would go out and walk along wild, tall grasses chasing

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  • 28 Things I Love About Neil

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    I’ve got 28 minutes to prove how special Neil is to me. This is going to be snappy because we don’t have much time before Neil turns 28. Not that he’s going to turn into a monster at this age. That’s not a valid premonition. Bear with the run-on sentences, invalid clauses and other grammatical

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  • How to Matter in this World and Beyond

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    Death was staring at me as I flipped to the right side of my tiny bed. A black figure loomed in front of me, humming something I couldn’t make out. It sounded clearer as it drew closer: “Where is your soul going?” I had an evangelist for a sister so I thought it must be

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  • Kiwi POV

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    POV is an acronym for Point of View, not my surname. Though Pov could have given Kiwi,my first name, a touch of Dutch or French. The ending voiced labiodental fricative or simply ‘v’ would have promptly put me in Science and Arts Hall of Fame. So I just frustratingly told you, I’m Kiwi not Pov. I have

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  • The Water-Seller’s Golden Children

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    Cracked heels, sun-burnt skin, worn-out top siders and sweat-drenched clothes made Sally a frequent subject of her neighbors’ compassion, if not, gossip. Day in, day out, she pushed her crumbling cart filled with eight 5-gallon containers of potable water and distributed them to houses for 5 pesos each. This task looked deceptively easy, but in reality,

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  • Celestial Space With You

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    Celestial bliss is what I feel, Everytime we’re together in that third space, We chuckle like crazy at frivolous things, We plotted getaways no super spy can unveil.   If this romance is insane, it’s also fortuitous.. That we found each other in that ethereal space, where “I’m your best friend and you’re my second

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  • How Could Threesome Be a Life-Saver

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    A year or two from now, a baby can come from two mothers with just one dad. This recent science breakthrough was all over BBC news headlines.  Any sage or sane woman would want to know the “how” and “why” of the story. For laymen like us, it’s a pretty complex science to understand. Let’s

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