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Open letter to DepEd: How to teach kids to read

Learning to read is not a mystery. It’s just like learning numbers, money,or any language. You need to know what a word means, then you need to memorize it. Then keep practicing. We learn that […]

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New Year with Old Friends

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because I don’t like setting myself up for failure. Instead, I declutter my books.I always start off the year with high hopes of reading a bundle of books. But […]

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The Gift of Books

I’m always thrilled when I get a new book. I can’t wait to go home and read it. I love being the first to crack open a book and flip its pages. Sometimes I can […]

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The stigma of mental illness

A mental illness is a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.” (National Alliance of Mental […]

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When a recipe for murder is ignored

I was excited to read “Arsenic and Adobo” by Mia Manansala, a Filipino-American in Chicago. This year’s book trends show that US publishers have actively sought non-white, Asian, and female writers—authors historically ignored in the […]