The Man Who Held Annual Neighborhood Circumcision Events (A True Story)

Street basketball in Manila. In our iskinita in Sampaloc (a suburb of Manila), there seemed to always be a basketball game like this going on, every day, every night. (Marcin Gabruk, Wikimedia Commons)

A Death and a Turkey

The first time I saw Menggoy was forty minutes before midnight on the night of the Millenium. My wife’s dad had passed away the week before in California and we had escorted his body home to Manila in the Philippines. The entire megalopolis was a war zone of fireworks and cheering and smoke as thick as fog…