A Trip Back in Time

A visit to Casa de Segunda,the ancestral home of Manuel Luz and Segunda Katigbak Luzin Lipa City.August 27, 2023 ~ ~ ~ ~ Segunda Katigbak, my great-grandmother, has been written in our history books as the “first love” of Jose Rizal. It’s one of those “what if” moments, but perhaps a bit imagined. From the

Sunday in the Cathedral

A visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Sebastián,Lipa City, Batangas.August 27, 2023 ~ ~ ~ ~ The Catholic faithful filled the cathedral even as a tropical storm raged outside. The large, deep, high-ceilinged church dedicated to the martyr-saint was built by the Augustinian Order in 1605. The original church made of wood was destroyed

READING FINDS

The Cat who saved books A novel by Sosuke Natsukawa Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai 198 pages HarperVia, HarperCollins Publishers, 2017 My daughter, the literature major and komiket lover, often chides me about my “fixed” reading habits.  “Why don’t you try reading more fiction,” she would say, “to balance the non-fiction and

A Garden amidst a Jungle

A walk around the FEU (Far Eastern University) campus in Morayta, City of Manila. Attending the board meeting of the FEU Senior High School was an opportunity to visit the campus after three years of Zoom board meetings. Far Eastern University is known for its rich cultural heritage, having the largest ensemble of preserved Art

WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM OUR FILIPINAS WORLD CUP EXPERIENCE

In victory and defeat, the Filipinas women’s football team has a lot of positives to take away from this World Cup 2023 debut.  It was a hard loss to a more experienced Norwegian side that ended our hopes of moving on, but there are a lot of firsts we can be proud of. o First