Category Archives: Editorial

How to Change Your Partner?

“Something is wrong with my husband Doc. I don’t know how to change him. He’s annoying. Is there any way I can change him?” In my practice, I’ve met many people trying to change their partners for whatever reason. They want their partners to change their attitude, their style of communication, their personality. They want others to change… Read More »

Pulling our legs again

Either way you look at the announcements of Philippine House Speaker Prospero Nograles and Rep. Luis Villafuerte that they are resigning their leadership of Lakas and Kampi, respectively, to hasten the merger of the two administration parties, it definitely does not bode well for the opposition in the 2010 presidential elections and in the battle for charter change… Read More »

The Main Ingredient

THE UN-COMFORT ZONE with Robert Wilson In 1907, during a major league baseball game, second base was stolen 13 times by the winning team. The catcher for the losing team, Branch Rickey, was unable to pick off even a single runner. That record stands to this day. It also spelled the end of Rickey’s career as a baseball… Read More »

Warning on warming

The world’s foremost experts on global warming gathered in an emergency meeting in Copenhagen last week to warn politicians to act now to minimize the impact of what they described could be ‘irreversible’ climate shifts and hopefully save a world that they said was “on the brink.” The 2,500 scientists from 80 countries who attended the conference warned… Read More »

Volunteering

Volunteering is simply giving back. When you volunteer, you give a big part of yourself — your time, your energy, your talent, your money, your individuality . . . and your vision. You can’t give something you don’t have. You can give only what you own. So giving back is more profound than what it means. It conveys… Read More »

A Handy Helper

In Depoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, the main character found a handy helper in the island-domain in the person of Man Friday. A handy helper was an individual who could perform so many jobs at any time either on his own volition, as directed or requested. Such a type of a young man was found in the quiet barrio… Read More »

Juana and Kiko: “Kababayan natin“

Two Filipinos of substance had left a lasting legacy to their “Kababayans “ , including those millions scattered around the world, the OFWs, The expats and others in search of better lives, of good fortunes not found in their homeland to clothe and feed their hungry families back home and some more of them who are plainly disillusioned… Read More »

Carol Datoon Bone Marrow

Carol Basco Datoon is 47 years old, and has lived in Toronto for over 30 years. She came here in 1976 with her three older sisters. She is happily married to her loving husband, Joven. And they have three wonderful, loving children. They currently live in Barrie, Ontario, an hour’s drive North of Toronto. Carol has Myelofibrosis. It’s… Read More »

The Ping-Pong Champion of Tondo

In one of those narrow unpaved streets of Tondo not far from the railroad tracks, a young player emerged whose skills in ping-pong (table tennis) was extraordinary. His name was Erning Pingol. During those years before the Pacific War, Erning lived in a place where ping-pong was a common sport and past time among the males. After school… Read More »