Bullying as a form of childhood aggression is as old as the hills. However, with technology (the Net, social media, and smartphones), it has...

In our Kakabsat (siblings) group chat, we crack jokes, upload memes, celebrate birthdays and other special events, make announcements, but ...

Today, more than ever, teachers need to be creative in the classroom to constantly engage our students. Our foe, called digital distraction,...

Up until January this year (2025), I was a mall rat and a shop habitue. I had been a willing victim of the word  “SALE.”  I’d be so proud an...

World Teachers' Day was celebrated worldwide on 5 October. But since I only teach for two hours on Mondays, I wasn’t in school that day....

 “I hate my name!” exclaimed a five-year-old boy when I asked him to write it down on a piece of paper. “Okay, but I need to know how you sp...

Longlong has been a long-time friend and used to be a peer in the workplace for years. An excellent art director, he rendered the layout and...

That’s basically what many teachers in grade school say about their students. That’s also the result of a PSA (Philippine Statistics Authori...

That phrase is the chorus of the hymn "Find Us Faithful," written in 1987 by Jon Mohr, with music arranged by Steve Green. It’s pr...

That blog title should really be.”When Seniors Attempt, Strive, Try, Struggle, Venture, Undertake, and Exert Remaining Effort to Dance.” Bu...

We have an expression in Filipino that gloats over another person’s misfortune, “ Buti nga sa yo ” (literal translation: serves you right). ...

First, the good news.   The huge, noisy crowd before the pandemic at the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) is back! I could hardly navig...

Try opening one of your closets. (If you are a male reading this, I mean your wife’s closet.) What do you see?   My aunt, a frugal Ilocana, ...

The Manila Internatonal Book Fair (MIBF) is in full swing. It's the third day, and if I don't go to the happiest place on earth, I w...

I used to hear this conversation (argument) between my sons and their father.  Whenever Tony gave street children food or treated them to sn...

This lomboy ( duhat in Filipino; Java Plum in English) tree standing tall at the corner of two roads in our village is 48 years old. It was...

Sarcasm is a figure of speech defined as a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression; it is a taunt. They are words that mean the opposite of wha...

Have you been duped by unscrupulous people because you were too trusting?  Sallie was in the mall, and had just shopped for her upcoming tra...

Meet-ups with friends used to be frequent . We’d find all excuses to get together. But these days, they have become fewer and fewer.   The p...

Home is where the heart is. But when home is not what it used to be, where will the heart go?  Our home is 48 years old. It has aged tremend...

Many articles have been written about this topic. I read a few when I learned that I was about to become one.   But as soon as I held my gra...

Too little time to take my maintenance pills, take off my shoes, put up my feet, close my blurry eyes, and put new batteries in my hearing a...

“No fuss!” I ordered my boys, knowing how people grandly celebrate an 80th birthday.    They fussed anyway. My thought balloon, Don’t kids l...

Ranting and raving are not my thing. They sap every energy from mind, heart, and body.  And yet, I dove into them last year.  It’s all about...

Finally, the paperback version of Mitch Albom’s “The Little Liar,” published in 2023, reached our bookstores. I had waited for it for months...

This time last year, I was assigned by the Discipleship Ministry Team of our home church to facilitate a seminar for Sunday school teachers...

Heartbreaking. The town of Mateo (the hero in the Oh, Mateo! series of 16 books) is underwater again. This time, Umingan is suffering fro...