Why would God allow a 15-year-old boy to die?   This was the question in our mind when Ronell, my grandnephew, died of Leukemia after only...

Our own rodent, Latte—one of JC's two guinea pigs—died about the same time Gadhafi did.  Brown like coffee with milk, and just as deli...

"He died like a dog,” many newspapers wrote on how the former strongman—one of the most vilified leaders in recent history—died. I sa...

“This is the most difficult book I have ever had to write,” I said in my short remarks at the launch of Solo Flight. And the reason is, it...

The first time I heard these two words was about a week before Adrian arrived from the US.  My friend G and I were shopping and she yelped w...

This year's September 1 is a season of smiles , I thought, noticing for the first time that everyone I met inside the ballroom of Manila...

While the world is grieving the passing of Steve Jobs, I am privately mourning the death of someone nobody knew but his family and friends. ...

JB called from the US a week before his and his family's short three-week trip to the Philippines. "Mom, what would you want me t...

This post completes my trilogy on the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF). From the opening day to closing time, I tried to be there. L...

It takes more than one blog post to write all about the grace that inundated the Book Fair . So here's another one. Day 3: OMFLit bo...

This was the experience of the Early Church:  "And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. An...

Is there a place in this life where nothing hurts?  Even if you stumble or slip, you won't feel any pain? There is. I was there with A...

What can the first three verses of the Shepherd Psalm mean but this? This is being made to lie down in green pastures.  This is being le...

Finding a needle in a haystack is easier than shopping for the bag (purse) I like. This nugget of wisdom came to me on the 2nd hour inside...

“Cambodia is beautiful!” my son JR gushed after a four-day tour of the country's sights. I was in Phnom Penh in 2007 and stayed doubl...

Adrian came home to a rousing welcome by two sets of families (his dad's and mom's), with a midnight snack and a Captain America ca...

Life is a quick succession of bad news and good news. It doesn't take brain surgery to figure this out. One simply has to wake up in ...

It's been a year since our little seven-year-old twins stepped inside a school for the first time in their lives. Then they had zero kn...

This superhero—together with Green Lantern, Spiderman, Iron man, and Batman—is coming to Las Pinas on the 30th of August! Our whole hous...

In a coffee shop sometime ago, I overheard two teenagers chatting:   Girl 1: “My mom is sooo old, she'll never understand what I am ...

My friend ALB (whom I love dearly) and I enjoy the same things—especially the arts, crafts, music, and exotic places.  We both gush and droo...

One print ad that I helped write was published this morning. To my horror, it has two missing semi-colons!  In their places, I had erroneous...

One of the things that charmed me most (and which I now miss) about advertising was brainstorming. Looking for a big idea, two to six peop...

Among friends and students, I remain the only one with a Jurassic mobile phone. It's four years old, and I have no plans of buying a new...

Over an early lunch, I said good-bye to a client of many years, one who has become a dear friend in the process. Rosy and her husband, plu...

That sounds like a horrible word.  It even rhymes with the equally horrid tetanus.   Tinnitus IS horrible.  It comes from the Latin word t...

I made it to the cover of TraveLife Magazine , July 20 special edition!  How many copies in circulation? One.   It didn't go on maga...

I am running amok with superlatives; I am raving over the indie movie, Amok . Now showing at the 7Cinemalaya 2011 , Amok was one of three...

Carl Sagan, et. al., and most writers of extra-terrestrial intelligence, have written about our interconnectedness, how the cosmos is within...

After my three sons' seventh or eight birthday parties, the rituals of our small family have always been spartan, if not austere. This...

Video calls are uninspiring.  Please don't think I am whining.  We have enough whiners (and bellyachers) in this country.  When I sp...

It's a Saturday, the only day of the week when I allow myself to loll in bed and contemplate nothing. There are no scheduled appointment...