Fancy a day away? How about two? You can’t go wrong by spending your hard-earned break from the world at Montebello Villa Hotel — one of Cebu’s only garden hotel destination in this bustling metropolis. Sitting on hectares of prime open green space – truly one of the last open …
Xiamen – Ground temperature was at 35 degrees Celsius when the bullet train arrived here after nearly two hours of travel from its neighboring city of Fuzhou. I was exhausted. This eight-day trip to China is defined by interviews with government officials from different ministries with very little time to …
Mommy I think I hurt myself. No – I didn’t stub my big toe or drop a brick on my head. Before I tell you what I just did – first a primer about me. I’ve never smoked a cigarette.
There is a special formula that Neil Gaiman uses in all his books and that formula has the capacity to captivate and transport dreamers like this mother to a place no mortal man has ever stepped on or thought of visiting. In Neverwhere, Gaiman constructed a London that was so …
Jeff left for Tokyo early morning of Saturday in classic Jeffrey fashion. He woke me up at around 5:30 a.m. – but don’t trust me on the accuracy of this narrative as I was only half awake that time – and asked me if I had money to spare for …
I never understood unconditional love until you came. I never believed in the great power of the heart to give love and spread love. I never realized that it is possible to love people before you even meet them. Your entry into my life came at a stage when I …
I recently brought along my soon-to-be four-year-old son to the southern Cebu town of Moalboal where I delivered a talk and workshop on feature writing. My fellow journalist, Doris Bongcac, and I took a three-hour land trip from Cebu City to Moalboal – around 92 kilometers in distance – to …
Let me tell you about Joy. Not the emotion, dear reader, but the young woman I only know as “Joy”. I presume that is her name although I have no doubt her full Cebuano name is something unintelligible this American native could utter.
Parenting is never an effortless task; it always comes with the conscious realization that we, parents, are raising individuals who will one day become grown-ups tasked to make their own decisions and lead their own lives. Jeff and I are not perfect parents but I write this post to share …
“To Eat a Lot is Not Bad – But to Waste the Food is Not Good” You’ll see a placard with this slogan written on it when you enter NYPD – short for New York Pizza Depot – located at APM Centrale, A. Soriano Ave., Mabolo in Cebu City directly …
