Gray Matters

Coming up on Thursday, June 19, is the birthday of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), whose heroism…

I’ve been attending college graduations since my own, way back in 1977, with the numbers…

Back in 2017, when I was pushed for a second term as chancellor of the…

He drove himself to his 2010 presidential inauguration ceremony in a Volkswagen Beetle. A few…

Food etiquette refers to cultural rules around eating and, until a few years ago, revolved…

In his first “Urbi et Orbi” (To the City and to the World), the new…

With age, I notice I get more people asking me, as elections approach, who I’ll…

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected pope on March…

The sun had set as my friends and I drove past the church in Pinaglabanan,…

A few months ago, a new acquaintance of mine, who I had met just once…