My Manila

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...

"In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time whe...

A red sunset at Manila Bay.

My husband and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary at the start of June by treating ourselves to a short beach trip to Subic in Zamb...

There's a new Seattle's Best Coffee and Kenny Rogers Roasters in our neighborhood.   They're pretty small to have such an e...

After a light rain shower in Quezon City.

Two of the Philippines' most popular mobile phone service providers have cell sites inside the Quezon City campus of Ateneo de Manila ...

This volcanic rock formation with a Marian grotto near the shoreline in Boracay is nicknamed Willy's Rock because it stands in front o...

The wide, white sand beaches of Boracay are well-known among tourists all over the world, but I have to confess that my husband and I had n...

The town of Pagudpud in the province of Ilocos Norte is gaining popularity as a beach vacation destination. However, its coastline is quite...

The Bangui Wind Farm is the first of its kind in the Philippines. Its twenty turbines are arranged in a single row along a nine-kilometer ...

The Philippine flag flying high— very high—at the Rizal Park .

A dreary morning at the runway of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport 's Terminal 3 , exclusive to Philippine Airlines and its low-...

From May 12 to 24, my husband and I went on a road trip through the Central Luzon and Ilocos Regions, stopping at cities and towns that we...

At La Luz Beach Resort in San Juan, Batangas .   Cabanas for day-trippers. If you're willing to rough it, you can stay here overnigh...

The dogs of the small villages around the area use the beaches of Laiya and Hugom in San Juan, Batangas as their early morning play and ex...

5:40am at La Luz Beach Resort in the municipality of San Juan in the province of Batangas , about 115 kilometers south of Manila, where m...

Seen while walking out of the Ateneo de Manila University campus on our way home at 6:00 in the evening a few days ago. Visit the Sky ...

It wasn't until I tried taking pictures of a sunset from start to finish that I realized that the sun's reflection on the water last...

Looking out across the rooftops of some of the upscale residential subdivisions around Capitol Hills Golf & Country Club from the roof ...