This question has a two-step answer. 1) Yes. I am always writing. 2) Whether it will be a book is another matter. Only publishers can de...

Ten is the first number that has two digits. Ten is the first number in grammar rules that is written as a numeral and not spelled out. ...

Please do not trivialize the anti-Marcos-burial protesters by calling us "yellowish." During Martial Law, my personal friends we...

A constant source of joy in walking at dawn is meeting fellow walkers and hearing your own voice and theirs chirping, “Good morning!” Ther...

Shortly after uploading my post on deep grief , this message by one of my FB friends catches my eye, “We are a people of hope. We must not g...

"Black hole: a place in space where gravity pulls so hard that even light cannot get out."  I feel like I am in it.    The news ...

This dates me, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear “Family Matters” is the American TV sitcom in the late 80’s that ended bef...

“Send the light, the blessed gospel light,” wistfully sang Pastor Popoy, our church's young missionary, in his soulful voice during our ...

In grade school, good earns us stars. In high school, good lands us  in the honor roll. In college, good bestows us with Latin honors: s...

Among the brainstorming techniques available to us, this two-word question, "What if?" seemed to work best for me and my teams whe...

If you upload a photo of your lunch to social media now, someone abroad will click on “like” or react with a “wow” before you could take you...

In my last post , I left out many unnamed women in the Bible that impacted our Bible heroes’ lives. My self-imposed word count of 400 can ...

In our study of women in the Bible, we usually focus on those whose names have gained prominence because of their important roles. To name a...

September is gone. It carted along with it the activities (usually spread over a few months) crammed in thirty days. Somehow, all the even...

Ani is the Filipino word for harvest.  It’s a most fitting title for the literary journal that the Cultural Center of Philippines (CCP...

Like the title of my newest book, Twin Blessings , I felt doubly blessed at a university where I was invited to perform two roles: one, fac...

To my shame and embarrassment, I was clueless about this advocacy. I didn't realize that that there are almost 200 youth advocates for...

As scheduled, this 3rd book in the Happy Home series was launched at the Manila International Book Fair on September 16, a Friday. However,...

Back story: The title of my latest book (a children’s devotional-cum-novelette) was chosen from about 20 others. The original title was D...

Since the year 2000, when my first book (The Boy Who Had Five Lolas) was published, about this time of the year I hold my breath waiting for...

There aren't too many celebrities in this world. That's why we lionize them. They are a select breed of people who have done somethi...

In one big room (usually the ballroom of Manila Peninsula Hotel), every first week of September, lovers of literature get together for the P...

With practically everyone in the world wired to technology, there is no information, name, person, book, idea, disease, item, foreign word, ...

Boxing/wrestling aficionados or not, we all know what low blow means. It is an illegal strike below the opponent’s waist—unsportsmanlike and...

Tattoos go back thousands of years. Humans have marked their bodies since ancient times. Tattoos then served many purposes: amulets, statu...

Have you met a nonagenarian? I haven’t. The octogenarians I knew went to glory before they could reach the awesome age of 90. But one da...

Hurrying to one book-signing event, I bumped into an old friend, Conrad. He was on a short break from a writing workshop. "I want to ...

Patience: a word derived from the Latin verb patior that means, to suffer. Ergo, patience is the inner strength to bear what gets our goat w...