In the Philippines, we learn to sense a storm before it arrives. We know the difference between amihan and habagat, between the dry gust that lingers and the southwest monsoon that soaks everything in its path. We are fluent in…
The Mentors Series remembers the women who’ve shaped how I see Art, Writing, Faith, Editing, and Translation. These are biographical fragments—from conversations, visits, and stories—that found their way into my own journey. I am hardly able to capture the full scope of their extraordinary lives, but at Page-a-Writer.com, I hope to inspire confidence and courage in telling these stories.
If you write from the heart of your healing work, if you document stories to remember, recover, and witness, you are a caregiver with a pen. The page becomes your companion. Real-life accounts from doctors, therapists, pastors, chaplains, and survivor guides listed below also offer companionship:
I’m seeing it — this child who has ADHD: he can’t sit still during Sunday school group prayers, forgets his pens and notebooks, talks to himself or to his imaginary friend (in this case, a spider called spidey), and gets…
This is why Filipino children’s play on page matters. Writing about our games is an act of resistance against forgetting. It’s how we offer a slice of our childhoods to the next generation. Not as a museum piece, but as a living memory they can borrow from