After seeing this photo , uploaded by a friend on Facebook, a thought hit me in my gut. This arc is not incomplete.  It is I who do not se...

This site is turning five tomorrow, but I am blogging about it now because I need to catch some sleep for my early flight to Iloilo for book...

My computer can't spell the word. It has the jagged red line right under it! Well, sphygmomanometer isn't a very popular word. If ...

“You were made for the discomfort zone.  It engages you,  keeps you sharp, and makes you grow,” thus said Curt Rosengren in his article in M...

Since this is the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 2011, I am reminded of a friend's text message a month ago.  She gave me many f...

Dateline: HongKong In a multi-racial conference, such as the Publishing Forum 2011 of Media Associates International (MAI), which I am att...

Am now in HongKong where I will facilitate a workshop for editors and writers in the Publishing Forum 2011 of Media Associates International...

If the “like” on FB had a price tag, I'd be spending a lot of money daily on the one page that keeps me riveted (“addicted,” my friend B...

Today, as a tradition in our country, most Filipinos will trek to the cemetery to visit the graves of their loved ones.  Many of them may al...

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...