“How would you like to celebrate your birthday?” son #3 asked me. My quick reply, “By thanking God for His grace through my long years—and b...

Q: “Throughout your writing career, what has been the most fulfilling part?” This question follows me like a shadow wherever I am asked to s...

Dyslexic I am called by close circles. My doctor says, “Inattention.” Sometimes I forget left from right in a huge mall; it takes 3 seconds ...

Research was a must before beginning any work on any idea in advertising. As head of the creative department, I had to attend or participate...

Every year, we listen to a presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA).  And every time, reviews run toward two opposite directions: Exc...

About a hundred women of noble character are unnamed in the Bible. Why? For one, old cultures recorded public histories through men. Women g...

Two trees illustrate long, productive life in the Bible.  One, the date palm: it can still bear fruit after 3,000 years.  Two, the cedar of ...

How can two sisters, only two years apart, who grew up in the same house, be polar opposites? This still puzzles me when my ading (younger ...

When I turned 80, I did a happy dance while reading this:   "Under the Expanded Centenarians Act, Filipinos aged 80 and above receive a...

On the first day of VP Sara's impeachment hearing, I sat rigidly in a chair and listened to every word. When son #3, a lawyer, came home...

My dad left us for his eternal home 44 years ago. The dad of my children bade us goodbye last year. How then should Father’s Day be celebrat...

Broadcast television isn’t dying, but it is going through a massive transformation. Traditional radio and TV networks have evolved into digi...

Schedule used to mean: routine. Dress up for work. Kiss the three sons good-bye. Work. Overtime for a client meeting or an ad shoot. Go home...

Once every three months or less, son #3 delivers the Sunday Message behind the pulpit, as requested by our pastor. A lawyer/professor, he is...

If you grew up in a Christian family, you'd know what Vacation Bible School (VBS) is. It is a week-long education program hosted by loca...

"Promises" when repeated is an expression of disappointment. It implies that commitments are not kept.  You and I might have promi...

Huddle is a trend--used frequently these modern days to replace the word meeting.  But it is an ancient word. It has been a part of the Eng...

“'Chicago,' my kind of town” is now light years away. But every time I read or hear the word, I speed back 13,086 kilometers with my...

Today is Father's Day. As the world celebrates the head of the home, I want to remember. Son #1 said it best for me with this post he up...

That question was the spine of the “God’s Favorite” series (published in 2006 by Hiyas of OMF Lit and illustrated by my artist friend, Ggie...

Mother Teresa, our super house helper (who spoils me rotten, and serves me like she would the queen dowager) asked for a few days off for a ...

Some people see busking as begging or panhandling. I don’t. I see it as heroic, especially if done for others.     Busking, for me, is an ho...

A well-loved former pastor, who now leads a flock in the US, visited our church with his wife one Sunday. It was a nostalgic grace day for u...

After the awe-inspiring  museum visit , what could possibly happen next? Son #3 planned to end our historical tour with flourish at a quaint...

Before I could process my analog mind, media had undergone a total make-over. It’s like a siege that begins in rem sleep and continues throu...

This art style (short for Decorative Arts) of architecture and visual arts began  in Paris in the 1910s.  From the 20s to early 30s, the wor...

Is a 25-year-old book old? Not really. Think of the classics published hundreds of years ago that we still read and re-read. And the most-re...