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Oh no, Ondoy!

Five years i have lived at Coco’s Corner on the fourth floor of a condominium wonderfully located where it is basically near or accessible to all my favorite things – UP, PCCC and MRT (Metro Rail Transit).  In all these years, i’ve only had a few housing concerns.  Well, except that one time when Typhoon [...]

Revenge of the Baby Sat (with apologies to Calvin and Hobbes)

They beat me at poker.  Every single time we played, they beat me at poker.  i watched my pile of play money go lower and lower until i would be down to my last few bills.  Then one of them would say, “All in!”  Sigh.  i should’ve known better than to think that i (at [...]

Miss Mai and Miss Jules

One of the favorite “jobs” i have as a senior (citizen?) staff with CCC is mentoring younger or junior staff.  Often this task is something i take on voluntarily, without anyone really asking me to do it.  i call these informal mentoring relationships – discipleship by subterfuge.
My friendship with Jules Consuegra (on my right with [...]

Getting Soaked in The Flood

It’s been a tough week.  In my last posting i shared about how encouraged i was with my involvement in The Deep – the youth version of Living Waters.  Well, i had no idea just how deep it would get for me…
Early Sunday morning, September 6, i had just finished bringing home three people after [...]