I used to teach English I for freshmen students at the Ateneo de Zamboanga College (back then!). And to help my students write something interesting and what I thought would be meaningful to them, I would ask them to write an essay about the story behind their name, using these questions as guide: What was…
Month: January 2021
“This is the truth!” (my version of it, that is….)
The other day, I came across this true story submitted by Edward Oppenheimer to Reader’s Digest titled, “My Newspaper Was Different”: A customer walked into my clothing shop and asked to see the pants that were advertised in the paper that day. “We don’t have an ad in the paper today,” I told her. She…
Just a little humor to brighten the week!
This past week, my sister reminded me of the need to include humor in my blog. So I’ve decided to share some of real-life stories I came across the ever reliable Reader’s Digest: After a coworker had finished his English lecture and his class had filed out, a tenth grader stayed behind to confront him….
Aurora Borealis
Two weeks ago, my wife and I saw the Aurora Borealis while visiting our son and his family in Fairbanks, Alaska. This was an awesome Christmas Eve gift, making us truly blessed to have experienced this phenomenon. My wife checked it off her bucket list! This natural light display, I learned from one video and…
A New Year – A New Endeavor!
Welcome to 2021! I’ve finally put this dream of blogging into reality! The idea started a few years ago (shortly after watching the movie Julie and Julia), but I just kept postponing it. There were several culprits to this happening: fear of writing something that nobody wanted to read; uncertainty about what the blog was…