mabuhay!
8
years in publishing
10+
years as print journalist.
10
years as nursing assistant
journalist
web designer
certified nursing assistant
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I left a modest publishing career in the Philippines where I worked as proofreader, copyeditor, and research manager for different publishing entities before Saipan beckoned, where I worked as a journalist full time. Then I found myself warming up to the healthcare industry as I transitioned into becoming a nursing assistant. And the adventure continues.
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Ten years of hands-on patient care as a nursing assistant, grounded in empathy and steady hands.
Two decades of reporting, proofreading, and copyediting across print newsrooms and publishers.
Building clean, personal sites and layouts that tell a clear story, like this one.
Shaping a publication's voice, from research and structure to the final published page.
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From binge-watching Army Wives to memories of standing outside the main gate at Subic Bay, this personal essay explores what it means to live on the periphery of military life. Moving through roles as a student, print journalist, caregiver, and observer, it uses Hans-Georg Gadamer’s fusion of horizons to trace how past encounters shape a present capacity for grounded empathy.
Now, Voyager is no standard Cinderella story; it is a blueprint for taking charge of one's life. Reading Charlotte Vale through Ricœur’s hermeneutics reveals that healing is an act of deliberate self-interpretation—untying the old ropes and sailing toward our own stars.
In 1925, sending a letter across the forty miles separating Rota and Guam meant waiting three months for a 2,700-mile round trip through Japan and Manila. A lighthearted look at historic isolation and why today’s lagging Wi-Fi is worth celebrating.
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