Try going to a place where there is no internet connection and staying there for four straight days. On the first day, you get disoriented...

Laymen like me say Dementia for Alzheimer's disease and vice-versa. I never really understood the differences or similarities.   Not e...

Once in a blue moon, my old friends and I plan a get-together—meaning, a dinner in one place at a specific time. It is probably one of the m...

In the early morning of our occasional family get-away, while waiting for the boys to wake up for breakfast, Tony and I walked to the lake j...

Gaunt, toothless, with a full head of white hair, and wearing a loose mid-calf house dress, she is a familiar figure in the neighborhood. ...

Celebrating God's enabling grace . Sing this hymn with me? A Mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; our helper He amid ...

"Grace, you haven't changed!” friends and acquaintances, whom I haven't seen for sometime, exclaim with a matching gasp and a l...

Every year, I cancel all appointments just so I could attend one special graduation ceremony. It is an occasion I never want to miss. How ...

My memory of shoes is a bit spotty as I am not a shoe enthusiast. But I think I might have owned a pair of Ferragamo in my past life. It wa...

During one of our coffee chats, my friend Rose asked me, “What are your similarities with Tony?” Difficult question. If it were asked in a...

There is no stopping the trend—Christian holidays are becoming more and more commercialized, products of astute marketing minds.   To some...

One thing that baffles me is finding something new about yourself even when you are already fossilized by chronological time. I recently f...

There are as many differences in graduation rites as there are schools. I've attended several as a graduation speaker over the years, ...

It's ironic that in the morning after (or after turning my back on marketing), I get invited to be one of two speakers—the other is a ce...

Deciding what my children would call me before I even had one was a tedious process: Mommy? Mummy? Mama? Mamsy? Nanay? Real Mommies with...

What a glorious day Easter is!  Truth was slain and buried in a grave, but It didn't stay there. Three days later, Truth resurrected f...

If you are cheap, as I am, you don't have to spend for lunch on grocery day. In the supermarket where we shop every Sunday, there are ...

Parents are  not allowed to read this post.  After a very early blood chem test in a hospital, I walk over to a nearby McDonald's for ...

God might have given me Shoo (not his real name) as a student to test my patience. He knows I have very little of it. Shoo is not a Filipi...