My Manila

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...

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'." ...

"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...

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~Pablo Picasso After eight years painting the interior of the Abbey of O...

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." ~John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art critic The Abbey of Our La...

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty...

"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions...

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

"Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back." ...

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 ...

"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!'" ...

On 14 October 2013, the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima visited the St. Stanislaus Kostka Chapel of the Ateneo...

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...