Miss California allegedly did not win the Miss USA crown because of her anti-gay marriage stance.  She was later castigated in youtube by one of the pageant judges for being a “dumb b—-.”
The good news:  If there is one great thing that could come out of Miss America, or any beauty pageant, it is this: there is one face out [...]

Most of us may have lived long enough to be entitled to a past—–however wonderful or sad, bitter or sweet or a mixture of both.  For sure we have a million memories stored in  the nooks and crannies of our brains just waiting to be retrieved one fine day.  Some of us may have stuff buried in boxes—– photos, letters, journals and mementos, [...]

One fine day in the fall I started a vegetable garden. For me, it was an idea whose time had come and I was excited at the  prospect of a bountiful harvest of plump, red tomatoes;  I dreamed of  lush kamote and malunggay leaves for the picking and papayas galore. 
 
I hounded my husband with [...]

“Part of the Family”
I  lived in lola Tanciang’s  house in  Tandang Sora Street my entire childhood and early into my adulthood. It was a rundown, two story, wooden home with a zinc roof that towered over some of the one story houses around it.  Whaever paint there was on the outside had long peeled off and over all, it [...]

“The president was horrified at the shooting deaths of 13 people at the Civic Center in Binghamton, New York.”
 
I find that statement in the news incredibly ironic coming from a president who supports  abortion. 

 
It is a fact that millions of unborn children have been slaughtered in this country, their silent screams unheard.  And yet, [...]