I haven’t bid Norman goodbye properly and I feel bad about it.
Norman is a very good writer and it was a privilege for VERA Files to have him as one of our writers.
When young writers inquire about contributing feature stories for VERA Files, a group that publishes in- depth and feature stories, I always tell them to check out articles by Norman, Pablo Tariman, Babeth Lolarga, and Winnie Velasquez as examples of good writing.
It’s good writing if once you’ve started with the first paragraph, you continue reading until you get to the last sentence. It’s a good article if you learned something new– an information or a perspective of an issue.