While biting my nails, waiting for the manuscript of my latest book “Present!” to be sent back by my editor, I intensely keep busy with othe...

To protect myself from the moist air during my dawn walks, I wear a hat.  The hat stays till I reach home at 6 AM. Today, seconds after th...

The one fruit that seems to reside permanently in our home is the banana. Tony buys a bunch almost daily (the yellow, seedless kind, which w...

On the Sunday Christians all over the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, adults and children in my home church resurrect our love fo...

That much-appreciated limited period of time in which penalties are not imposed even if you are late—for whatever (insurance, class, appoint...

Not only babies (and acrobats) can put their foot in their mouth.     We can, too. I can and I do.  Foot in mouth is an old idiom, origin...

OPM. That was the acronym we used for clients and bosses who reneged on their promise because they either forgot about it or didn’t mean it ...

Someone very close to my heart died from drug overdose at age 30. I knew him since he was 16 years old. His parents, who spoke very little...

We’ve gone where the world has gone! To that dark pit where gizmos have taken the place of face-to-face encounters: Make no mistake about it...

This idiom was first used by the ancient Greeks, referring to the risks shared by all passengers in a small boat at sea. Through time, the m...

I've been blessed with two wise, thinking bosses, from whom I have learned a lot.  (I omit from this post the creative, unstructured one...

The book:  Originally written in English, No Lipstick for Mother won first prize in the Palanca Awards 2005.  It was re-told in Filipino b...

While reading my chronological Bible, I found a strange story that made me sit up, ponder and wonder. It’s found in Numbers 21:4-9. The pe...

Deposit it inside a drawer for hibernation . . .    That's what I just did with the manuscript of my latest book. This is the step ...

Have you been treated to a blast of blessings all at once? I was. And I asked myself, What did I do to deserve this?  Amidst months of b...

Intelligence is an extremely complex subject.    There are IQ tests that measure intelligence, but debates are raging over their flaws. I...

Even to hard-core believers, sometimes God doesn’t make sense.   This, in essence, was what I gleaned from our pastor’s message one Sunday. ...

Mothers might have invented the term “multitasking" long before it made its way to the dictionary. From pregnancy to childbirth, unti...

February, the shortest month of the year, unpacked big events in succession: Valentine’s day; Chinese New Year; International Book Giving Da...