The morning I was hit by a bicycle was the last time Ma asked me to do an errand before she left us to work in another country.

Is the lack of agency in the movie’s characters a reflection of centuries of colonialism? A Fil Am writer explores.

How lying down, getting up and marching on Madison Av is a metaphor for the fight vs. tyranny in the Philippines.

“You really can’t get weird on a dehydrated noodle. You really can’t get weird on a canned sardine. Snacks, yeah you can get a little weird.”

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
–MFK Fisher, “How to Cook a Wolf”