The corona virus quarantine must have turned me into an FB denizen. Every week I get tons of:  “You have been identified as one of the top f...

With apologies to Charles Dickens . . .  These are the best of times, the worst of times—the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness; the epoc...

“You’re off-strat,” my boss would promptly say when you as much as said anything that veered away from the strategy.  “Out of order,” says t...

The world seems to have fallen back to the dark ages.  As we are caged in our homes (specially senior citizens like me), we look out ...

“You can’t handle the truth!” yelled Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholdon, in the movie A Few Good Men . He then went  on a t...

Writers and artists, the off-the-wall personas who make up a creative team in an advertising shop, have been suddenly barred from leaving th...

If you are put off by spiritual laments, feel free to click away. Mister God, This Is Anna is an old book about friendship between a 16-yea...

“The Israelites,” Pastor Ariel (our home church’s senior pastor) stressed in his livestreamed Sunday message, "were stuck in the deser...

Grace, as defined in Scripture, is unmerited favor. When Christ was on Earth, He consistently bestowed grace upon all men: whoever they were...

An unknown enemy, nicknamed by WHO as Covid-19, has come to assault, endanger, and inflict untold suffering upon humanity. It lurks stealthi...

Our only grandson, Adrian, was going to turn 13 , a milestone by any standard. Unfortunately, the corona virus pandemic crushed all odds for...

After abandoning my daily walks three years ago due to my curling toes , I thought I’d never experience walking at dawn again. But the coron...

One of the Beatles’ best songs, A Day in the Life , combines the best of Lennon and McCartney. Lennon writes about disillusionment while McC...

In a pressure cooker where I worked for two decades, Lily was the head of Personnel (Human Resource was still a mindless infant not knowing ...

“Nobody is exempt from _____________.” I asked our group in adult Sunday school to fill in the blank with one word. Our answers were simil...

The first in line—that’s where I belonged in school while everyone was growing up except me. From elementary grade to college, and definit...

Online learning has been a way of life for me for quite sometime now. My library is the cyberspace. Much of the new things and information ...

One of my favorite spots at the SM mall in our neighborhood is the flower section—not to buy, because they are pricey, but to gawk. Some are...

While on lockdown, the words I post on social media are carefully crafted to extol or call down an issue. As a citizen wanting only what...

I have used the word excruciating  only a few times in my life.  These were when the world was at its darkest: seeing my dad suffer from c...

A is my nephew—not by blood but by bond, a mighty bond of shared faith. He’s a kind, caring, and helpful kid (I call everyone kid in our chu...

Rich or poor, young or old, male or female—everyone is a prey of the virulent virus called Covid-19. So are we in the same boat? No, we’re...

Since we lost Ate Vi , our lifelong househelp, we had a quick succession of others who took their job half-seriously and left unceremonious...

In a crisis—especially a pandemic—everything is urgent. It is vital to use simple words that can readily be understood by everyone.  Euphemi...

(Reflections on God’s message:  Peace over Fear , through Pastor Ariel, on my computer screen.) David was afraid for his life, just as we ...

I talk and make sounds in my sleep. Weird? This condition is called somniloquy , defined in medical dictionaries as: a parasomnia that ref...

Itchiness is non-life threatening, but it is totally infuriating. If it runs amok on your scalp, it could turn a perfect day into a total ch...

A menace called Covid-19 has spread its venom all over the world. As of last count, there are almost half a million people afflicted (380 in...