2020 Q3 Cityscapes Features

Who Am I?

Question begets answer.  But in the midst of a pandemic, it may be an exception.  Not an exception to the rule but exception to reality.  Removed from reality, I am an aberration.  I depart from the usual, normal, typical, and on to obscurity, absurdity, and I dwell headlong as a menace to society.  I am […]

2020 Q3 Lifestyle Money Talk

Pay Yourself First

“Rational people don’t risk what they have and need for what they don’t have and don’t need.”     –Warren Buffett Pay yourself first is the next money principle we are going to discuss today. Hello and welcome back to “Money Talk,” a series of discussions on financial independence here at Epistoliorum. I think it’s fitting […]

2020 Q3 Inspiration Nook Poetic License

Awit ng “POONG NAZARENO” sa mga Pilipino

“PINAKAMAMAHAL KONG PILIPINAS! TINIMBANG KA, NGUNIT KULANG!” Anak, ano ba ang gusto mong marinig? Di ba gusto mong gamutin kita? Lahat ng paghihilom nang anumang sugat ay nagsisimula sa pagiging totoo. MAGPAKATOTOO KA! Kailan ka pa natutong magmura? Kailan ka pa natutong mang-api ng kapwa mo? Itinuro ko ba sa iyong magnakaw ka? Mahal kita, […]

2020 Q3 Afternoon Respite Inspiration Nook

Mahilig Akong Magdamo

Isang paggunita ng nakaraan Napakahilig kong magdamo. Ito’y aking nagisnan at napagtanto noong ako ay isang nobisyo sa Iloilo.  Subalit, bago n’yo po akong husgahan nang di kanaisnais, maaari po bang basahin nyo muna ang aking paggunita sa nakaraan at sa aking munting pagninilay-nilay. Lumaki ako sa gitna ng siksikang siyudad.   Kahit ang kalye namin […]

2020 Q3 Lifestyle Sports & Leisure

We Are What We Eat, Even During a Pandemic

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”  – Hippocrates Fortunately or not, we’ve developed our eating habits during our childhood years.  Here in the United States,  a country of immigrants from diverse regions of the world, people have varied eating habits.  So in every State, one can find restaurants reflecting this great […]

2020 Q3 Editorial Features

Dear Reader

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic –the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like;  the eerie appropriateness of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”  ~Charles de Lint On the revival of Epistoliorum, there is one word that comes foremost […]