How to Thrive as a Freelance Writer After Work
After a lifetime of working, I’m back to freelance writing in retirement. The pace is slower. I’m learning to enjoy the quiet before work, the work, and the freedom to do things my own way.…
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How to Turn Adult Experiences into Children’s Stories
How can adults turn their life experiences into children’s stories? Start with the experience, but don’t simply retell the adult version of it. Find the part that a child can feel, understand, and make sense…
Writing Beyond Labels: Categories, Hashtags, and Identity
What a Childhood Game Taught Me About Identity, Literature, and the Limits of Categories When I was a child, we used to play a game called Thinking of Categories. The game moved to a rhythmic…
Weight of Naming, Accurate Language and Limits of the Imagination
Writing Begins with Naming Writing does not begin with ideas, as I once thought, but with something more grounded, almost physical, a name. A place arrives first as a label before it becomes a landscape…
When Ligaya Came Home: An OFW Homecoming, Memory, and the Language of Return
This is a true story of a relative OFW homecoming in the Philippines, drawn from my own experience and memory. I write it here as creative nonfiction flash memoir, using the devices of writing short…