Retrospective of 12 of Jose Carillo’s Personal Essays (2003-2023)

[Joe Carillo]

January 28, 2024

Dear Forum Member and Friend,

We are pleased to announce that for this first quarter of 2024, the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage is featuring a retrospective of 12 of Jose Carillo’s personal essays written for his English-usage column in The Manila Times and subsequently posted in the Forum during the 20-year period from 2003 to 2023.

The 12 personal essays, each viewable by clicking their indicated web links, are as follows:
 
1. A World Without English
2. The Grammar of Manners
3. English in a Used Jar
4. Do Kingfishers Eat Butter?
5. The Tree of Life
6. Indignities in American Minor
7. How I Discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. Rediscovering John Galsworthy: “The Apple Tree”
9. The Roots of English
10. The Evil That Ignorance and Incompetence Can Do
11. Matters of Faith
12. The Real Score About Valentine’s Day

These essays are likewise directly viewable from the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage at https://josecarilloforum.com/.

We trust that you’ll find these 12 essays enjoyable reading or re-reading as well as instructive about the power of English in communicating our thoughts and ideas and in expressing our feelings.

With our best wishes,
Joe Carillo