An odd question , I thought. I never heard of the phrase “person of priority” before. But as the pastor of son #2’s church in the US conti...

Sparkling on every table—one for each guest at the Mother’s Day celebration of son #2’s church in California—were these prism-like gems refl...

That’s the title of one of two books by Richard Paul Evans that I borrowed from the city library while vacationing in California. I usually...

Today, August 31, 2018, we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, he who said, "The Filipino is wort...

Still reeling from the 16-hour travel from the Philippines to Northern California, I couldn’t keep my eyes open as daughter in-law G drove u...

We were in the US when the shooting in a Texas high school happened (two months ago). Nine students and one teacher were murdered by a 17-ye...

From the Orange County Airport (a.k.a. John Wayne Airport), Tony and I took an Uber to his cousin’s place, where we’d be visiting for four d...

By this time, almost a week in California, I still had not conquered jet lag. Age? At 3 AM (6 PM in the Philippines, a day after Mother’s ...

Mother’s Day this year arrived while Tony and I were away—in California visiting son #2 and family. No big deal really. As I’ve written of...

On social media in the Philippines, the word "lodi” is a popular interjection, a fad at the moment. It is actually "idol" spe...

I had worked with over 100 artists in my job as creative director in a multi-national ad agency. They were a strange lot—and I mean that i...

A cousin from the US asked me to please send her a copy of my book, Mystical and Magical Mindanao. The title rang a bell, but I had no boo...

A public uproar erupted after our president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, exclaimed in one of his rambling speeches, ". . . stupid God." ...

When you reach a certain age and meet with friends of your generation, one of the topics of conversation would be maintenance medicines.  Mo...

It’s foolproof. In all the creative writing workshops I have facilitated for children, there is one word that is guaranteed to elicit uncont...

My crimson-leaves header (above) was supposed to come down after my blog on crimson leaves had played out its four-day run. But Tony decide...

My greatest frustration in the US of A for three consecutive years now is not being able to photograph these windmills. I’d tried each ti...

As we entered the gate of son #2’s neighborhood, I gazed in awe at the trees with crimson leaves that lined the main road, serving as canopy...

Adrian’s birthday gift from his parents would have been a trip to Universal Studios. But in deference to two oldies, who scheduled their fli...

In this place I call home, the road traffic is so horrendous that vehicles need to slow down or stop every few meters in many areas. Seatbel...

Aside from son #2, his wife, and son, who pick us up from the airport, Alexa welcomes us to the lovely home where my husband and I would sp...

My husband loves to travel; I don’t. Not that I hate it, but if given a choice, I’d rather stay home and write and read. I used to hop fro...

When my husband took a fall while nursing a respiratory infection in the US, he writhed in pain on the floor.  He could hardly move, felt fa...

A young dad was carrying his toddler in the mall. The kid looked at me and waved. I chirped, “You are a carbon copy of your dad!” The da...

Papers, papers, papers—finally I am done with papers. The semester has ended. The next time I’d see them again would be in August, the begin...

Due to the dreadful traffic condition, which has worsened from nasty to nastiest in the last year, I  vowed never to travel outside of our d...

Sleep-deprived. that's how I’d describe me after last night’s tossing-and-turning episode at three in the morning till it was time to ge...

It's been two months after Easter, and our pastor is still at it—preaching about Christ's resurrection. For good reasons. The most i...

One word is missing from this old phrase dating back to 1707: judge, jury, and executioner.  Please add: accuser. That’s what the Supreme ...