National Literacy Month is observed every September in the Philippines. This aligns with International Literacy Day on September 8. That was...

D-day has arrived. I wake up early (I always wake up early) for my book signing date at the Manila International Book Fair.  I feel a massi...

After the MIBF , I am definitely zonked! Time was when I would spend four whole days (from opening to closing hours) there and still feel zi...

Like a kid in a candy store, I rush from booth to booth. There are just too many books at the MIBF! Joy never runs out in a place like this...

Adrenaline has kicked in, and it will keep pumping up at the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) as it continues to welcome book lovers ev...

Redemption is powerfully told in the greatest book ever written: the BIBLE. A non-theologian, I define it in the simplest of words: Believer...

People of my generation can scream all they want, but we are in this digital era (an alien!) where almost every information can be taken fro...

“How would you like to celebrate your birthday?” son #3 asked me. My quick reply, “By thanking God for His grace through my long years—and b...

Q: “Throughout your writing career, what has been the most fulfilling part?” This question follows me like a shadow wherever I am asked to s...

Dyslexic I am called by close circles. My doctor says, “Inattention.” Sometimes I forget left from right in a huge mall; it takes 3 seconds ...

Research was a must before beginning any work on any idea in advertising. As head of the creative department, I had to attend or participate...

Every year, we listen to a presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA).  And every time, reviews run toward two opposite directions: Exc...

About a hundred women of noble character are unnamed in the Bible. Why? For one, old cultures recorded public histories through men. Women g...

Two trees illustrate long, productive life in the Bible.  One, the date palm: it can still bear fruit after 3,000 years.  Two, the cedar of ...

How can two sisters, only two years apart, who grew up in the same house, be polar opposites? This still puzzles me when my ading (younger ...

When I turned 80, I did a happy dance while reading this:   "Under the Expanded Centenarians Act, Filipinos aged 80 and above receive a...

On the first day of VP Sara's impeachment hearing, I sat rigidly in a chair and listened to every word. When son #3, a lawyer, came home...

My dad left us for his eternal home 44 years ago. The dad of my children bade us goodbye last year. How then should Father’s Day be celebrat...

Broadcast television isn’t dying, but it is going through a massive transformation. Traditional radio and TV networks have evolved into digi...

Schedule used to mean: routine. Dress up for work. Kiss the three sons good-bye. Work. Overtime for a client meeting or an ad shoot. Go home...

Once every three months or less, son #3 delivers the Sunday Message behind the pulpit, as requested by our pastor. A lawyer/professor, he is...

If you grew up in a Christian family, you'd know what Vacation Bible School (VBS) is. It is a week-long education program hosted by loca...

"Promises" when repeated is an expression of disappointment. It implies that commitments are not kept.  You and I might have promi...

Huddle is a trend--used frequently these modern days to replace the word meeting.  But it is an ancient word. It has been a part of the Eng...

“'Chicago,' my kind of town” is now light years away. But every time I read or hear the word, I speed back 13,086 kilometers with my...