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It was exam week so the Ruffolo home in Liloan, Cebu was a frantic mess of pad papers, dog-eared textbooks and unwashed lunch boxes. Mornings are all about sending the six-year-old twins out the door before 6:20…
“Do you become wealthy when you are a journalist?” asked the Grade 7 student from a private school who visited the newsroom along with 30 other campus journalists on a Friday afternoon. “It depends on how you…
You won’t believe it. But there was a time in my teenage years that I wanted to be a nun. I was influenced by two Benedictine sisters: Sister Mary John Mananzan and Sister Alexis Remoroza. I started…
August ends today as if it never started. It looks like the world is in a hurry to get to the ‘ber’ months. Tomorrow, September 1, Christmas “begins” in the Philippines. At home, the letters for Santa…
Everyone in my mother’s clan lived close to each other in Barangay Calawisan, Lapu-Lapu City so what happens in one house is known by the rest of the families in the entire compound. So when Lola Mikay’s…
When my siblings and I saw the rice fields of Barangay San Juan, Ormoc City, we cheered with the passion and noise similar to football fans when their team scores a goal. It was our first time…
Every month, I go on four dates with my children. The first date is with Nicholas; the second with Antoinette; the third with Jeff Jr.; and the fourth with all three of them. The sequence is not…
I grew up in a home where Sunday mornings were all about the songs of Max Surban and cassette tapes which my grandfather, Diosdado Sr., called “standard Bisaya” music. Living in a house next to my grandparents…
News of a mother drowning her 11-month-old baby reached me while I was in a learning session with colleagues on responsible media coverage of children. It’s heartbreaking. A child, who is only a month shy of…
July is an exciting month for storytellers, book lovers and reading advocates as this is the month when we celebrate the National Children’s Book Day (NCBD). NCBD commemorates the date of the publication of Jose Rizal’s…
Cebu finally did it: combat online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) with technology. OSEC is an issue that strikes a personal chord in me because I knew children who are victims of it. I was a…
My six-year-old son wants to be a boy scout. He made this announcement as we walked from the highway to his school. He said his classmate, Seve, wears two types of uniforms: Type A and Type B.…
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