Ana Marie Pamintuan is the editor-in-chief of The Philippine STAR. Her column “Sketches” appears in The STAR’s opinion section three times a week. Amy also co-hosts “The Chiefs,” the daily news and current affairs talk show on Cignal TV’s One News channel. ​Away from the newsroom, she de-stresses in the kitchen and plays with her dogs, and has been a plantita years before the word was coined and the pandemic struck.