The author in Fiji, with tiger sharks congregating in the background (Photo by Boogs Rosales)
FULL disclosure: next to dogs, my favorite…
Approaching Balicasag Island, about 30 minutes from Panglao
FOR a while there, I thought I had become socially inept. It was like one of…
News goes viral on the internet for different reasons, good and bad, but once in a blue moon, a truly beautiful story takes your breath…
IN 2013, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent the whole nine yards of treatment. It was a very trying time, because my family…
IT’S our second Holy Week on lockdown, and the feelings of despair and despondency are testing the faith of even the most devout and…
Suga on VLive before his surgery in late 2020
LAST March 5, fans of the global Korean-born supergroup BTS were happy to see a special…
I SWEAR on all the saints and angels that I did not suspect I had Covid-19 that Sunday after New Year, when I had lunch with four friends in…
I was sitting in the garden of the Cenacle Retreat House in Quezon City that December 24, 2015, waiting for Christmas Eve mass to begin at…
IT’S the late end of a working day, and I need to unwind, so I search YouTube for music videos of BTS, depending on my mood of the…
I LOST my 95-year-old mother last February 29 after a few years of being in charge of her care, and some three months of critical care in…
