Hi, I’m Maan Gail Manigsaca

(mah‑ahn 🇵🇭).

I’m Filipino. Right now, I work as a commercial cleaning supervisor in Canada. I’m here as a temporary resident, raising my son on my own, and my husband is back home.

This is where I gather my small experiments and writing, while I'm still in the middle of figuring things out as a newcomer.

A lot grows in the in-between: quiet observations, unexpected connections, and things you notice when you're new to a place and paying close attention because you must. I write from that space. Not from having arrived, but from still crossing.

Before coming to Canada, I spent 10 years running a gym and working as a personal trainer in the Philippines. Now, I’m in Kingston with my son, while my husband stays back home. We are building this life in stages, finding momentum one chapter at a time. That’s where these experiments and writing come from.

If I had to put this little lab into words, it would be this:

"What grows in the middle of things?"