Poster of the movie starring Jude Law as Alfie

Being The Workshop With A Theme Song, Alfie
Technical Writing: So cold, so logical, so unoriginal. The beauty of my workshop, The Write Approach, is that I’m an original, so I expect you to enjoy every minute of it because I designed it to be both business and [...]

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Two faces: Left, Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and
ICRISAT Director General William Dar showing sorgo brochure

Being About William Dar &
‘Science With A Human Face’
In the developing world, agriculture is the most promising site of growth – since the Green Revolution, it has always been [...]

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Oil portrait of Rizal by Hidalgo, 1883
Being About Rizal’s Racial, Intellectual Sport
1861 June 19: Frank C Laubach writes that in the town of Calamba, province of Rizal, the Philippines, today is born ‘the apostle of Filipino freedom’ (1909, rizalslifewriting.tripod.com): Jose Rizal, who became the National [...]

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‘Popeyed Yankee Father’ – clipart by Publisher 2002,
title & rendering with Photoshop 7 by Gloria

Or, To The Yankees, To Make Much Of Time
I hope the world will always celebrate Father’s Day. To make us fathers feel important – for one day at least once a [...]

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The 4 Impractical Freedoms’
Clipart by Microsoft Publisher 2002, title & rendering by Gloria

Being A Declaration of Independence By A Mouse
Enough! I’ve had enough of your Noise of Democracy, Manila. Your No’s of Democracy tell me you will never understand the music of the spheres. ‘Nothing essential [...]

The GO Words’ by Gloria
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Or, How The Opposition Are
Their Own Worst Friends
GO? Fair warning to those opposed to George W Bush, friend of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to those who would become US President: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and the rest of [...]

The Graduate PC’
Being A Personal Guide To

Professional Scientific Reporting
I am of two minds, you might say: I can write a technical paper this instant, a popular article the next, on most any topic. My mind is very creative – I just invented ‘lateral writing’ the other day, which just happens to complement Edward De Bono’s [...]

‘A Taxi Stand, My Eye!’ by Gloria
In The Beginning Was Writer’s Block
WRITER’S BLOCK? I’VE SEEN THE ENEMY, AND IT IS US.
Don’t have Writer’s Block? You must be Isaac Asimov (500 books), Ray Bradbury (99) Edward De Bono (55), Arthur Clarke (60), or Frank Hilario, who has 1 book, 1 wife, 12 children, 48 [...]

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Being An Ode To The i
George Will writes for the Washington Post and for everybody else; I write for myself. I write about software; George writes about soccer (football to you) – now there’s a match and a play; now therein lies genius.
George [...]

Clipart by Microsoft Publisher 2002
Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different form

Or, Maxing Microsoft Word 2003
What the world needs now is love – and to write, speak & think better, much better. Two software are necessary here: a computer program and a brain. Because the computer helps us think, but we [...]