I thank God for His grace of stoking our passion for children's literature. Please celebrate with me National Children's Book Day!

Don't fall for statistics . . . don't fall for statistics . . . don't fall for statistics . . . This I repeat to myself whenev...

To say that Facebook is like a jungle may be accurate. In one reading, as you scroll down “Home,” you get  snapshots of all forms of inhabit...

Knowing I teach Advertising/Marketing, a friend emailed me a link to images of vintage cigarette ads.  I did a few ads for a cigarette com...

Yesterday was a quiet day, a wordless day, in fact. If you've been cleaved unto your husband for over four decades (more like forever) ...

  Leche Flan: by  Sandy Sevilla, FB 'Come Visit My Philippines' 

My husband, first son and I were to dine in a pricey place, courtesy of second son and daughter-in-law who reside abroad. It was a Father...

Nora Ephron makes (I re-read her books) me laugh, but now she's dead . Should I still laugh?  She was known as an intellectual, a jour...

This photo had me in stitches one early morning: Ate Vi rushed to see what was wrong.  She was sure I had snapped, not having heard me laug...

John (not his real name), a Caucasian, was my client for about five years in my other life. He was the fair-haired boy of his multi-national...

This ancient dish, which originated in China, is prepared by wrapping chicken in clumps of mud or soft dough made from wheat flour and then ...

"Older women have an important role in church," spoke a much younger woman (a lawyer whom I have known since she was a toddler in ...

Shamelessly and hurriedly, she robbed.   She crammed three, four, five copies of books into a bag. It was a steal! She was rabid, uncontro...

The most relaxing place in the world, for me, is the hammock. The spa comes a poor second.  What sets a hammock apart from a spa is people...

Three young women in the campsite office, where I dropped by to request for supplies for our cottage, met me with warm smiles. “Are you Ms. ...

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 ...