(This tribute to our church's senior pastor is a reprint from the OMF Lit website in celebration of Pastor’s Appreciation Month.)    ...

It was Adrian, our grandson, who introduced to Tony and me ( Angkong and Amah ) his favorite dish, poke salad. We have it in our country, t...

I am of two minds about this place where people either die or get healed. It was in a hospital where many of my loved ones breathed their ...

Students graduate and commence. After completing a program, they begin learning new things and growing in their experience. And here I am,...

Many people are afraid of numbers, especially superstitious ones who believe numbers bring luck or bad luck. Some buildings have no 13th flo...

Since I joined the roster of authors of Church Strengthening Ministry (CSM) six years ago , I have been privileged to take part in its annua...

(This is the 3rd and last part of the message: Word People , delivered at the OMF Lit's Book Dedication event one week prior to the MIB...

(Continued from the previous post . . . this is Part 2 of the message:  Word People , delivered at the Book Dedication event of OMF Lit) ...

One week before the opening of the 2018 Manila International Book fair (MIBF), OMF Lit hosted a Book Dedication event that gathered all of i...

Second days of book fairs are for taking it easy—leafing through more books, buying more, and sashaying in and out of booths while waiting ...

Peanuts, the now classic comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, introduced me to the lemonade stand. As an inquisitive child, I often wondered...

This new, one-of-a-kind book is not only a devotional, it is a partnership—from every possible angle you may look at it. It’s a partners...

At the launching of Gone? on the first day of the Manila International Book Fair, I was gifted with so many surprises, I won’t be able t...

The acronym CICL stands for Children in Conflict with the Law. Lawmakers in the country have been considering lowering the age (18) that...

My only brother-in-law (Tony's younger brother), who was my dear friend and whom I admired for his intelligence and creativity, overdos...

During the American Idol auditions, finalists jump and whoop, “I am going to Hollywood!” Glamorous Hollywood is where their dreams are made....

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 ...