Readers often ask how I come up with column topics when Philippine history, as we know it, is centuries-long and complicated. Timeliness is key. For January, I frame the past with the present in terms of: New Year celebrations and rituals, fireworks, the traslacion of the Nazareno de Quiapo, the feasts of the Sto. Niño […]... Keep on reading: Cleopatra’s nose, Imelda’s cyst