ENDEAVOR High school class reunions and homecomings serve as important milestones in the moving train of life. These are occasions for meeting friends from younger years, refreshing memories, comparing notes, and promising to get together anew. “Let’s meet more often in pizza parlors, not in...
ENDEAVOR What if, instead of a Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO), organizations would have, instead, a Chief Spirituality Officer (CSO)? This was the question posed to participants in the 60th People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) annual conference which is currently being held...
ENDEAVOR In the run-up to the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) on Oct. 30, 2023, the 10-day campaign period begins today, Oct. 19. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto declared that he was taking an “extreme stance” of not endorsing candidates to demonstrate his determination to...
ENDEAVOR If you want to be inspired, take a few moments to appreciate the awesome beauty of God’s creation as manifested by Brother Sun, Sister Moon and the stars, Brother Wind and the air, Sister Water and Brother Fire as St. Francis of Assisi does in his poem, Canticle of the Creatures. Pope...
ENDEAVOR After graduating from college almost five decades ago, I began working as editor of a magazine for bank employees. But it’s my vocation as a teacher that truly defines my work history. I write on the eve of the global observance of World Teacher’s Day that was proclaimed by...
ENDEAVOR Recalling the music of one’s youthful years, I have realized, is one way of muting, or softening, the harsher echoes of past events that persist in one’s memory. Intermittent episodes of Last Song Syndrome, or LSS, serve as a healing balm, a feel-good experience. You'll find...
FORMER MMDA Chief and Marikina City Mayor Bayani 'BF' Fernando Following the footsteps of his father who was elected as the fourth mayor of Marikina, Bayani Fernando was elected its ninth mayor in 1992 and is credited with having transformed what was formerly a fourth-class municipality into one of...
ENDEAVOR Connecting the dots, or making sense of what has been, is an exercise in hindsight which, paradoxically, provides the clearest of all vision. As the Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard framed it appropriately: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must always be lived...
ENDEAVOR Where were you when martial law was declared in the Philippines in September 1972? This is a query that could be answered by those like me who were college students in the preceding years, 1969, 1970, and 1971, when I was a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior at the University of the...
ENDEAVOR Every week, a Dulugang Bayan (literally, Town Roundup) is held in a chosen barangay in Calamba City, Laguna. Sponsored by the local government unit (LGU), the assembly enables citizens to seek free legal assistance for addressing their grievances and for expediting processes that could...
ENDEAVOR Judging by the heavy influx last Monday of those who filed their certificates of candidacy for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BKSE) on Oct. 30, 2023, there is a high level of interest and enthusiasm for political and civic involvement among Filipinos. According to the...
ENDEAVOR As the FIBA World Cup Championship unfolds at the Philippines Arena tomorrow, Baby Boomers like me could not help but reminisce how basketball was a significant aspect of our growing-up years. The Philippines also hosted the FIBA World Cup in 1978, at the Araneta Coliseum, where we placed...
