Hebrews 12 tells us in no uncertain terms that our first priority should be a life with Christ. And the key to such life is discipline.  The...

What a three-year nightmare it had been!  All gone, at last.  Here's a brief numerical rundown:  The first quarter of the year 2020 was ...

To those of us who have lost a loved one (or more), grief is not a temporary guest. It stays.  Fun and laughter, successes, and the company ...

Sometimes screenshots speak so soundly, additional words might blur them. I am therefore uploading them as is, as posted on FB by then a cut...

Today, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in partnership with the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY), celebrates the 40t...

After I received this hand-me-down watch from son #3 about a year ago, I started dancing—in private. Dancing is the quickest way to increase...

A secret remains a secret unless purposely revealed. Serendipity, on the other hand, is finding something you never purposely looked for, or...

Writing, for me, is like eating; I can’t live without it. Fasting, therefore, can’t come into the equation—not even as a thought. The Covid-...

For three seasons a long time ago, with five years in between each season, I taught my three sons to close-open their tiny hands.    Accordi...

Due to the many simultaneous activities after the worship service, the women’s Sunday school was assigned the kindergarten room. It has teen...

This was a question Pastor Popoy, our speaker in a church gathering for seniors, asked after he spoke of the Israelites’ 40-year journey in ...

Through all the years before the pandemic, I’d traipse around book fairs from the first day to the last. It didn’t matter if I had a schedul...

What a sad, despairing idiom , I used to think whenever I heard it from my American friends (budding stage actors) after an abysmal audition...

We may not be familiar with this Latin phrase, but many Christians use its English translation (“God willing” or “If the Lord wills”) to pun...

Way below the popularity of the rose, orchids, and other flowers, the gumamela (hibiscus of the Mallow family), seems to be ignored as a gif...

 Do you know a Keturah?   It’s an unusual name. But if you’ve combed through the details of Abraham’s life, then you do. She is usually skip...

A choreographer is key to any kind of dance—hip-hop, ballet, rock or just a background ensemble in a stage play and other events.   He plans...

Before the offertory in church services, the liturgist usually reads Bible verses on giving.  A favorite in many churches is Malachi 3:10 (N...

One day is simply not enough to take in all the treasures at Dewi Sri, a 10-hectare, Bali-inspired farm in Pila, Laguna. We were there exact...

Mining?! It is the extraction of valuable treasures and other astronomical objects from the Earth.  That’s exactly what the women of our chu...

On Mother’s Day this year, my mind traveled back to my book, No Lipstick for Mother (illustrated by Kora Dandan-Albano and published by Hiy...

Mother’s Day as we know it today is highly commercialized: flowers, greeting cards, parties, meals in fancy restaurants, and phone calls (mo...

This term came with the digital age; it appeared in the urban dictionary sometime in 2016. Seenzoned is when you send someone a cyber messag...

For me, the ultimate magicians on this planet are  make-up artists. They can make any ordinary-looking woman extraordinarily beautiful. They...