Long ago, you could gain a friend through snail mail anywhere in the world, without ever seeing him. He was called a pen pal. Those days are...

Cardiologists warn us, especially when our blood chemistry reveals risky results, to have a healthy diet.  “Eat in moderation. Avoid eat-all...

A lady senator, who plays the mistress of the house in a short video, scolds her househelp named Len-Len, off-camera. The name is a thinly v...

As I read Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT), I shivered. The words hit a little too close to home. They’re on the Net and newspaper editorials almost e...

Since October, the color PINK—initiated by volunteers for VP Leni's presidential campaign—has spawned so many meanings. If you were to a...

Every language has its own phrases/clauses that are untranslatable to any language. We can try, but the essence is lost.   One example is Ku...

Two adverbs and one adjective do not accurately describe how I feel about Frasier, a sitcom series in the 90’s (spin-off of Cheers ). It is ...

If you are a millennial, you won't know Bob Dylan. But those who were already humans (as I was) in the 60's, he was a respected cele...

The year 2021 marked the 411th anniversary of the most important event in English Bible translation history.  Since its first printing in 16...

We all know the drill.  Presidential candidates spend millions to hire brilliant minds to create and produce their campaign materials (with ...

RSVP means “please respond.” It is the acronym for the French phrase Répondez S'il Vous Plaît. This requests the invitee to formally acc...

One of the things I learned in the workplace that I'll take to my grave is "Think outside the box."   This metaphor means: thi...

Before the pandemic, I blogged about this special night.   Three years later, I find myself pining for those nights when we could physically...

Like a donkey, I bray “Oh my God!” when something startles me. Then guilt, heavy guilt, hits me big time.  "Thou shalt not take the Lor...

Cogito, ergo sum is a statement by 17th-century philosopher René Descartes in his 1637 Discourse in the Method . It is more familiar to us ...

Are Christmas parties possible during a pandemic?  Well, if you consider staring at a screen filled with tiny squares (each showing either a...

Heart failure is one of the most common causes of a person's sudden death.  This might have happened to our dear Fiscal, the street cat ...

My friend, Ardy Roberto, the moving force behind " Project Author ," invited me to one of his online meetings with would-be author...

This is our second New Year's Day wearing face masks outside our homes. The unwanted, untamed enemy in this protacted war keeps mutatin...

"Releasing Children From Poverty in Jesus' Name" This first line in the Compassion International (CI) brochure so moved me, I ...

For years and years, I would not repeat my Christmas tree motif . Thinking up of what next?  was hard to ignore.    Then five years ago, we ...

In December, it's Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays.  Among Christians, there are no ifs, buts, ands, or maybes. Christmas is when we ...