Have you ever written a letter to yourself?  I have—too often in fact. As frequent as every four days, or less. That's the cadence that ...

You can’t find the word “devoseries” in the dictionary—not yet anyway. It was created by CSM (Church Strengthening Ministry), the publisher...

Contrary to popular belief, air conditioning is not the solution to the punishing heat we are suffering from in the Philippines today. In fa...

Brief is a polymorphic word. It can function as multiple parts of speech.    Verb: I’ll brief her about the meeting.  Noun: He wrote the b...

On Tuesdays, I am reminded of the now-classic  Tuesdays with Morrie (a memoir by Mitch Albom), which I enjoyed reading sometime in the late...

“Grace is not something we find,” I wrote in the Author’s Note of my book, Grace Found Me . “Rather, it finds us—but only if we allow oursel...

Butterflies flit from flower to flower in our garden every day. They are my early-morning delight! At mid-morning, the heat hits hard and so...

This happened many moons ago, but after I had blogged about writing for children , memories came flooding back. I am glad I kept photos of t...

It’s been 23 years since I wrote my first storybook for children, and I am still often asked the steps/advise/formula/how-tos on how to writ...

Every Mother’s Day, this banter could be heard within the enclave of the Chong dynasty (a facetious and fictitious name we gave ourseles).  ...

Before a term ends, the university where I teach part-time conducts a student evaluation of their teachers.  I’ve always wondered about this...

This handsome young man is not a movie star, although he could pass for one. He is my one and only grandson.  I guess a grandma is licensed ...

A foolhardy move, you might say, but I had to change what the last letter in GOHAS ( G uest O f H onor A nd S peaker) stands for. Instead of...

 It took less than five hours—inclusive of an hour for lunch and coffee, plus several pit stops for bladder breaks—for my ading Dave to lei...

In a digital world now peppered with acronyms, it takes vigilance—if one wants to be on the ball—to know the new ones coming in droves.  BFF...

For the longest time, Maundy Thursday has been a Family Day in my home church. While other churches re-enact what happened thousands of year...

Every time I am invited to speak in a school event (such as Moving-up or Graduation) I take the opportunity to talk about Christian values. ...

Reunions are great. But huddles are even greater.  It evokes images of a close-packed group curled up and cuddling around a campfire. That’s...

This phrase is familiar to those who have gone to a circus at least once in his life. It’s what the magician says when he performs a vanishi...

A blink happens too quickly: 0.1-0.4 seconds. Thus, the idiom, “in the blink of an eye.”  Despite its speed, a blink can cause living things...

What is grief ?  That’s a question I tried to answer in many blog posts. But now it seems that those answers are not what it really is since...

My ading (locano honorific for younger sister) Aie was Tony’s too. Like an older brother, he had been, in words and in deeds, supportive an...

Sometime in 2017, Tony and I visited son #2 and his family in the US of A. All we wanted was to be with them for a month since we hardly saw...