Musings 1 min read Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Grand Central Terminal As I embarked on my journey from Queens to Manhattan, thoughts of the Gilded Age swirled in my mind: Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, Read More
Musings 1 min read The day the city swayed New York City, a place of towering steel and bustling crowds, never struck me as somewhere the earth might tremble. But that Read More
Musings 1 min read The leper spy Growing up in the Philippines, I neither heard of nor read about Josephina “Joey” Guerrero until Ben Montgomery published his book, “The Read More
Musings 1 min read Death comes in threes Death, they say, arrives in threes. Call it superstition if you will, but it certainly felt true for me as I bid Read More
Musings 1 min read The past becomes the future?! As I settled in to watch the classic 1956 film, “The Catered Affair,” starring luminaries like Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, and Debbie Read More
Musings 1 min read Freedom of religion, abortion and women’s rights In New York, access to abortion clinics offers a sanctuary for women’s reproductive rights. As the Supreme Court weighs the fate of Read More
Musings 1 min read Roe vs Wade, women’s rights and the Culion women of 1937 As the looming decision of the U.S. Supreme Court threatens to upend what was believed to be firmly established law in Roe Read More