Test, JWb Admin Nadia GRACE WITHOUT SHELTER From the house where I grew up, about three tongue-and-groove planks were missing from the dining room floor. Each was roughly a foot long, and together they formed a square about a foot wide. The cav... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia LOOSING FOR SUCCESS I once joined a quiz bee. It was a small, local contest sponsored by the church in our community—nothing fancy, just the kind where faith, trivia, and pride quietly collide. The timing was perfect. We... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia The Repurposed Driven Life It was a rainy afternoon, and everything seemed to be going wrong. My DIY table saw suddenly refused to cooperate. I switched it on again—the sound of the motor revving gave me hope—but it just couldn... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia PAMANA Nanay left us when she was only forty-nine. I was beside her in the hospital when our Creator decided her time had come. For three years, her life had been tethered to a dialysis machine, ever since h... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia The Best Teacher “The best teacher in the world is a mistake.” Nanay said it one ordinary morning, over breakfast, as if she were commenting on the weather. It was a Monday. I remember because my white polo—once proud... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia Gloria My Nanay—Aling Emma to everyone else—once ran a very successful hog-raising business. Our backyard bodega didn’t begin as a storage room. It began as a pigpen. I was around four years old then, small ... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia The Unfinished Chair We began with good timber. Straight-grained, strong, full of promise. Together we laid out the pieces, measured twice, marked our lines true. In those early days, every strike of the mallet and every ... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia The Map to Fortune Street Have you heard the idiom “the road to success”? Ate Praxie once told me that skill is a passport—it can take you to a better tomorrow. The problem is not having the passport. The problem is knowing wh... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia A foot ahead of another The goal of travelling is to reach the destination. Yet, it was the story of the expedition that will be told more. A mountaineer will dream of reaching the peak, but the climb will fill the pages of ... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia Kids never grow young. Spending time with our children during their early days is priceless. We work to give our loved ones a better life, but life spent working is not life at all, perhaps, not even an excuse. I had my own... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia The Currency Called Knowledge Most people who know me know that I am a cabinet maker. What fewer people know is that I began as a furniture maker—and even fewer know how early that journey started. I was twelve years old when I fi... Feb 26, 2026
Test, JWb Admin Nadia Life’s Only True Currency It was my Nanay who first taught me the value of time. I was six years old, standing barefoot on the cool cement floor of our house, my hair still wet from a hurried bath. Outside, the morning sun was... Feb 26, 2026
