My Manila

"Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff." ~William Thorsell, past Director & CEO of t...

One last post about our trip to Bantayan Island (see previous two posts)—the Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church, better known simply as Ban...

One of the few things I was willing to wake up at an ungodly hour for was to watch the sun rise over Cambodia 's greatest treasure: Ang...

The Buddhist Bayon Temple was built in the late 12th or early 13th century and stands in the middle of Angkor Thom , the capital of the em...

The 10th century Banteay Srei , dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva , is distinctive among Angkor 's many temples because of the miniature ...

Back in November 2013, my husband and I spent five days in Siem Reap , Cambodia with a couple of friends. We got home to news of a large ty...

"Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bam...

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, tha...

"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intellig...

"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves." ~Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), The Death and Life of Great Amer...

"In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart." ~Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual...

"A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit." ~Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American poet Just as its doors ...

"Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other." ~Paulo ...

"Most of the time, doors remain closed simply because they have not been tried to be opened!" ~Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish no...

"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves." ~Owen Feltham (1602–1668) The Basilica...

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de ...

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." ~ Walt Streightiff The Mind Muse...

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation." ~ Brigham Young Centro Escolar Univ...

I've featured the 1896 St. John the Baptist Parish Church (better known locally as the Pinaglabanan Church) quite a few times, but mos...

This is the closest I've gotten to the dome of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, better known as the Manila Cathedral a...