I ALWAYS turn reflective as the end of the year draws near. This change in attitude always begins in September,...

ON All Souls’ Day this year, a friend asked me how I was doing, if I was okay. I answered,...

There’s a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our...

  WHEN  my husband Kidlat and I initially booked our flights home, it was like flying blind: we had no...

WHEN I lost my friend Carlos Celdran two years ago, it prompted me to write this piece. It came to...

THE last time my husband Kidlat and I were in Spain in the spring of 2017, we brought our children...

  ONE of the gifts of the pandemic was that it pushed me out of my comfort zone. Like many...

THIS week, I’ll be turning 48. I know everyone makes a big deal about turning 50, but there’s something about...

“MOMMY, did you know that there was a prehistoric frog that was so big, it is thought to have eaten...

ONE of the hazards of not speaking the local language is that even after ten years of living in Baguio,...