“The painting’s gone,” laments the youngest of dad’s nine brothers, Alfredo “Ding” Roces, a painter in his own right, now...
Half the fun of getting things done, for me, is making plans; carrying it out, however, despite unforeseen and sudden...
I’d like to honor the men of the cloth who have helped me stay the course, and for which I...
When dad left us, in 2010, at age 91, three years after mom herself passed on, I suddenly felt orphaned...
On Sept. 12, 1948, Teresita Castillo or Sister Teresing, a 21-year-old postulant at the Carmelite monastery in Lipa, Batangas, received...
I remember how I felt irritated to no end, whenever a situation tried my patience, to hear the nuns tell...
We had my youngest granddaughter with us for her Christmas break last year, a happy way to end 2019 and...
Every day, except Thursday, my deadline for this column, one day seems no different from any of the others. I’m...
For nearly two months, we seniors like most people, have meekly accepted the lockdown. We’ve understood it to be for...
In one of the sweetest love songs by Tony Bennett, he describes what being loved felt like, without using a...
