I smiled many times over the past week, and one of the reasons was because of a tree. It all began when I saw Richard eating santol with much gusto. I watched as he remarked between bites how he had ...

Santol ranked 13th in a tropical fruit poll I once posted on my food blog, www.marketmanila.com. It seems like an unusually low score, for a fruit that is in many a backyard and which provided me with ...

THIS is the Robert Langerneger painting Raymond “Moira” Lee and I co-own. I have it sixmonths and he has it the next six months, and so on. When I die it goes to him. It is a lovely arrangement for a ...

I looked up at the hundred-year-old ‘santol’ tree near the gate that had puzzlingly been raining hundreds of ‘santol’ fruit lately. ‘Nabubuntis ka pa?’ Suddenly the centenarian was fertile!