Aisa Valenzuela

The Grand Newsstand is anything but grand. Housed in one of the green—usually unused—newsstands you find littered around Market Street, it lies a block away from the Ferry Building, near other stalls with local vendors and artists. The circular stand opens up to reveal...

Originally posted March 10, 2014When I think about my childhood, one person looms large: Elmie, our housekeeper-slash-nanny, who has worked for my family off-and-on for thirty-five years now. We are distantly related on my mother’s side, but it’s the...

Breathing is something we take for granted. After all, we've known how to do it the minute we were born. Our most fundamental exercise – indeed, what we do the most of each day – gets no thought at all. But consider this: What if we’ve been doing it wrong all along? The Buteyko Method, named after Dr. Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, the Russian physician who developed it, is a technique that believes simply breathing correctly is the key to solving a lot of health issues. In the course of his studies, Dr. Buteyko found out that nine out of 10 people actually breathe too much.

Originally posted April 4, 2009“So where can you go in the Philippines?” is always a question we receive at the office from foreigners who are on a business trip here for several days. “Boracay, Palawan, Bohol…” would be our standard answer, listing the most popular...