By Jeff Ruffolo Photos of the Ruffolo Twins by Eva Marie Gamboa Locale: Cebu City Marriott Hotel Isn’t it nice when someone comes right up to you and says hello? Or perhaps wishes you a good day? It is just the same for a child when someone looks at a little …
This post was updated on July 27, 2014. It’s easy to pay Php250 for a shirt, wear it, have your picture taken, go online and upload it on Facebook. But it’s another thing to actually practice what you preach – go out on field, do the legwork, sweat it out, …
This article was printed in the youth section of Cebu Daily News on February 24, 2012. Posting this as a background article before I write about The Basadours tomorrow (14 January 2014). The love affair started with a tabloid newspaper written in Cebuano. It was the year 1996. My grandparents, …
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The concept was to make them models of the two newspapers I write for – Philippine Daily Inquirer and Cebu Daily News. Already, the room was showered with so much cuteness when they arrived. But as it turned out, my little girl Toni fell asleep after two straight hours of …
What makes a great story? Well, of course it has to have a beginning, and middle and an ending. This is the same for a story written for adults or for children. Children are pretty smart. They can tell a good story from a bad one. All you have to …
Today’s ORMOC CITY – Ninety children from four schools joined the Inquirer Read-along session last December 4, 2010 as part of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. They were part of the 2,000 children all over the country, who were participants of 25 simultaneous read-along sessions nationwide.
People often thank God because it’s Friday. Friday means the end of a work week to many people. Friday marks the start of a weekend of rest or fun. Friday signals a time where everyone can slow things down and admire the beauty of HIS creation. We, at The Reading …
Meet the two ladies who serve as our twins’ real-life guardian angels ever since they were a week old. The twins were barely a week old when my Mom arrived at our apartment in Mandaue City (Cebu) with two, young ladies in tow. Their names: Joy and Elsie. They come …
It took me two years to start this blog because I feared that it will strap me down in a chair, stressing about what to write next rather than going out to the world and start doing something. Don’t get me wrong. I have no issues about writers, who use …
