Father's Day News
My father bought newspapers everyday, preferably, The Philippine Star, and told us tirelessly to read, read and read it for most of our lives. I'm buying it for you to read, was his sermon. I didn't like how the pages make me sneeze and how it darken my fingertips. Seeing it lying there on the center table and all over the couch with my father, I'm left with no choice but to browse those papers, and maybe because my conscience knew that I'll be grateful for it in the future (like right now😁). And so, I made a list of benefits of growing up with a morning paper at home: 1. Broadened vocabulary. I learned my subject-verb agreement and the poem "All Things Bright and beautiful" in school, but I'm not sure how I would've understood what "ASG bandits at large" meant if not for the periodical! What else could be the best source of news and feature writing jargon? It inevitably made me pick up the dictionary as well. Two birds with one st...