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...

Our office trip to Bantayan Island (see yesterday's post) wasn't only for rest and recreation. The more important objective was team...

One week before the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration ( PAGASA , which means "hope" in ...

"Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity." ~Damien Hirst, Engli...

"Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt." ~Christian Boltanski, French sculptor Made of recycle...

"That's universal—we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide e...

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." ~Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French nov...

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound." ~Marsh...

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...

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses Other than the enormous flo...