Not that anyone is interested (ha, ha!) except me and perhaps Tony, but my fingers are raring to write about it. The writing itch is somethi...

Pictures populate social media the day after Christmas. On my wall, I see nothing but beautiful and colorful pictures of people laughing in ...

Red and green are the two colors that are closely associated with Christmas .  Once I wore a red and green printed dress to a summer get-tog...

A Christmas reflection:    In fact and in truth, man can't do or be anything—not even breathe—without God's grace. Every good thing ...

In relation to the vast universe, man is just a teeny-weeny speck. Consider these scientific statistics: “The earth’s sun belongs to a galax...

In addition to familistic , one other adjective used by sociologists to describe our culture is: pronatalist .  It's the practice of enc...

If these three words sound like a bargain, they are.  Not only do they save money, they make you spend less time, effort, and everything in ...

This is one word I have ignored and never used. Not only is it difficult to spell, it is also laborious to pronounce. Instead, I use simpler...

From that one moment in October when I searched online for PINK in nature (the day the PINK movement was born), my email continues to receiv...

November, thanksgiving month in some parts of the world, has come and gone. But we can't stop giving thanks.  “A Thankful Church” was th...

All roads lead to books.  November (National Book Reading Month) always seems to make that happen, with the Department of Education since th...

Worshipping the Lord in the same church, Christian And Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines (CAMACOP), for the past 45 years, I c...

One of the events on writing I was invited to this month of November gathered a crowd of 100, composed of college students taking up educat...

To the delight of children’s book authors, the Department of Education (then headed by Secretary Armin Luistro) in 2011 declared, as one of ...

“Miss, we can’t hear you!” a loud voice from one of my online students boomed, startling my face-to-face class. They roared as though it was...

 These leaves complete their 16th year this month. I didn’t plan it that way.  When I started blogging in November 2006 , I thought I couldn...

How’d you like the chicken cooked?  Neck.  What’s your favorite chicken dish?  Neck.  Should we order fried chicken?  Neck. However you reph...

Every morning after breakfast, Tony and I have this ritual (not by choice, but by force of circumstances) at our terrace. With our piping-ho...

 After leaving the super-stressful-and-strenuous workplace, I thought nothing could get my goat ever again.  Nary a thing (not even paid tro...

Since I began attending Sunday school (SS) as a little girl in our small church in the province to this day, the Lord has guided my growth b...

Had I written a blog two days ago, as I itched to do, it would have been a piece of disgrace. My mood was mercurial; a low-grade fever and s...

To celebrate The International Day of Older Persons on October 1, I wiped the dust off an old column I wrote for The Freeman newspaper (Ceb...

Next to Mathematics, History was my least favorite subject. I loathed memorizing dates and people’s names.  On the other side of the spectru...

Like any professor, I impress upon my students that for any class work, preparation is non-negotiable.  “There are three ways by which you c...

“Have you written a book on gratefulness?” an old friend from Childlink Learning Center and Childlink High School , Inc. in Cebu messaged me...

Critical thinkers are curious and reflective. They ask questions—a battery of questions.    I am oversimplifying it. But if those are the qu...

Many things can change in one day. Imagine then the slew of changes in 1,095 days, since the last Manila International Book Fair ( MIBF 2019...