My latest chronological Bible (CSB’s Day-by-Day), the Christmas 2020 gift from son #1, is now my favorite among all my chronological Bibles....

My header, while this post is current, features the four-leaf clover, which my playmates and I would look for in our schoolyard at the begin...

With so much free time while in quarantine, I savored Hope Bearer (Lessons of Hope and Courage in times of Crisis and Change) in two straig...

Since the year 1988, when If We Hold on Together * was first performed by Diana Ross for a movie, our subclan has been repeatedly singing th...

In our home, the year 2020 was a year of minimalism—not in terms of worry and fear—but in terms of trappings of the consumer culture that ha...

Those words, said in jest by Teo, anchorman of our 76th Clan reunion on ZOOM on 1 January 2021 have never felt more right and more beautiful...

After ending our tradition of a home-cooked turkey for Christmas dinner four years ago , we thought it was gone for good.  The turkey we ord...

As soon as the coronavirus started battering humanity, a number of doctors in the country got infected and died. That pained (okay, distress...

The year just ended was tough, and that’s putting it mildly. From January, when the Taal Volcano erupted, we started staying indoors and wea...

His love has no limit, His grace has no measure His pow'r has no boundary known unto men For out of His infinite riches in Jesus He give...

One dark night over 2,000 years ago, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, was born in a manger.  No fanfare, no celebrations, no fancy rit...

One of the many things that fascinate me about staying home during the pandemic is the slew of creativity that I am privileged to enjoy on s...

Many columns, articles, and news items in today's newspapers (yes, Tony and I still buy three printed dailies every single day!) speak a...

It’s that time of the year when organizations or groups plan and organize Christmas parties.  One of these groups emailed me, asking for my ...

My 14th blog anniversary has come and gone. Ooops, it slipped away unnoticed.  I just realized I missed the date: November 24, which I comme...

This was my post on my FB wall a few days back:   “I will be in Indonesia tomorrow to talk to school children about the importance of readin...

Blogger Jenna Myers Karvunidis, who loves celebrating, started the gender reveal idea in 2008, while she was expecting her first child. “It’...

In business, defining the worst-case scenario—a risk management concept where the direst of outcome is projected so that plans could be put ...

After I had learned a few digital tricks, and became quite confident doing them on my own, I started calling myself a teenior. Neat, huh? I ...

For two days in a row, this heartwarming photo (cropping mine) of a man—a most unlikely kind to love reading—went viral online.     Shirtles...

This devotional for seniors, written all through 2019 until February 2020, finally saw print and will be launched at the online MIBF (Manila...

Around this time, I should be resting from several book tours out of town—in time for the Manila International Book Fair. Alas, the Covid-19...

Ice cream is America’s favorite dessert and I am guessing that it is also some other countries’ most-loved afters in many parts of the world...