About This Site
This personal archive is a digital home for the feature stories I wrote as a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer 's Southern Luzon Bureau from 2003 and 2006. I entered the newsroom fresh out of college. Time has moved on but the stories still speak. They hold portraits of people and places, fragments of culture and history, and the quiet grace of everyday life in Southern Luzon. I held on to many of the original newspaper clippings, and I am grateful to finally bring them here, from old folders into the light. These are stories worth remembering. Stories of the familiar, the forgotten, and the quietly extraordinary. Although I later spent nearly two decades in humanitarian work, disaster risk reduction, and climate action, I never lost the instinct to listen closely, observe carefully, and tell stories that matter. Because in every field and in every role, I am still, at heart, a purposeful storyteller. Gil Francis Arevalo
