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...
Lockdown has been extended to the end of the month. This is, after all, a life-and-death emergency, caused by a...
Aside from writing this column, I’m pretty much retired, yet I’ve never been busier. I never had a nine-to-five job...
It is said the only thing constant in life is change, and I guess with age that becomes truer. As...
It is said that those born in February, the shortest month in the calendar, are kulang-kulang—that is, lacking in something...
My closest friends are my first cousins Ninit and Sylvia. Growing up, we were to everyone “the inseparables,” and to...
