When I turn 50 I’d like to take a major life sabbatical. A lot of people in my age group,...
Through the years I have often wondered how my daughter Pia had been coping with the loss of her younger...
“In life. On a path. On the road. We are never really lost but merely finding our way. There is...
Back home in Manila the rains pound incessantly. Outside my hotel room window, the sun’s warmth radiates its heat on everything below, and the skies over the sunshine state are at their bluest.
You just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the nightLike the Fourth of July—“Firework” by Katy Perry It...
It was her stories that first drew me to her. And in the end, it was again, her stories that...
I am eight, and my mother is brushing my long hair, painstakingly braiding it (think Pocahontas), making sure every strand...
Lately I’ve been grappling with forgiveness. When I grapple with something, I like to read up on the subject. I’d like to believe that over the years, I’ve become a much more forgiving person than I was 10 or even five years ago. I guess it comes also with having been through a lot of situations or circumstances where I learned that clinging to the pain simply does no good.
What do you need to do to find happiness? The Action for Happiness website (www.actionforhappiness.org) says you need to live the Great Dream on a day-to-day basis. Great Dream is the acronym for the 10 internal and external keys people need to take to bring more happiness into their lives.
Earlier this week, my students and I were watching the 1991 Oscar-nominated film “The Prince of Tides” starring Barbra Streisand...
