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December 30, 2013
Greetings from Koronadal
December 23, 2013
My Reading Year 2013
December 19, 2013
She sings in my dreams
December 08, 2013
Family Day 2013
December 03, 2013
Confessions by Augustine, translated by Garry Wills: a beautiful rendering of a humble man's prayer
November 24, 2013
Our Pediatrics rotation in black and white
November 23, 2013
David McIntyre's The Hidden Life of Prayer: a jewel-strewn tapestry for the serious Christian
November 22, 2013
Remembering CS Lewis' 50th death anniversary
November 21, 2013
The only exercise I ever get
November 18, 2013
Stalking and Dante Alighieri
November 18, 2013
Julian Barnes' The Lemon Table: stories of the old
November 12, 2013
Selvie
November 11, 2013
Block F at Mak Chang
November 08, 2013
The Duel and Other Stories, and my serendipitous discovery of a new favorite writer by the name of Anton Chekhov
November 06, 2013
Anita and Arnold Lobel's On Market Street: a pediatric guide to capitalism
November 04, 2013
Sanctified
November 03, 2013
Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: a priest in hiding
November 01, 2013
Why kids hate me
October 31, 2013
Spring cleaning
October 23, 2013
José Saramago's All the Names: chronicles of a bored stalker
October 23, 2013
Not everyone reads
October 22, 2013
I need Thee every hour
October 19, 2013
We're halfway through Internship year
October 17, 2013
Alice Munro wins the Nobel, and intermittent updates on her short story collection, Dear Life
October 15, 2013
ORL (Otorhinolaryngology): October 2-15, 2013
October 13, 2013
Walk with God
October 12, 2013
Vignettes No. 1
October 10, 2013
Graham Greene's The End of the Affair: what you can read after a painful breakup
October 09, 2013
James Salter's Dusk and Other Stories: the power of a sentence
October 07, 2013
Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and The Professor: what to love about numbers
October 05, 2013
William Boyd's Waiting For Sunrise: an actor is a spy
October 04, 2013
A cursed fridge and a generator that runs on uling
October 04, 2013
Books for the weekend
October 03, 2013
John Barlow's Everything But The Squeal: Eating The Whole Hog In Northern Spain. Ahh, where's the crispy pata?
September 30, 2013
Speak, O Lord
September 27, 2013
Carwash 2.0
September 27, 2013
Carwash
September 25, 2013
The best teachers
September 22, 2013
Blast from the past: my column for DormWatch in 2005
September 22, 2013
Overheard in the elevator
September 21, 2013
Wired, not wireless
September 16, 2013
My soul thirsts for You
September 15, 2013
Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Collected Stories: the wonders of short stories
September 12, 2013
Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: the closest I'll get to being a cowboy is by reading about it.
September 10, 2013
I played basketball
September 06, 2013
My reward system consists of films
August 27, 2013
On a gloomy afternoon
August 23, 2013
John Banville's The Sea: coping with loss
August 20, 2013
The things we do in the service of the sick Filipino
August 19, 2013
The cure is friendship, and how to deal with bullies
August 19, 2013
Woody Allen's Getting Even: on Mafia and wiretaps
August 16, 2013
A heart like Bonhoeffer's
August 16, 2013
High school friendships
August 15, 2013
On kids, broken bones, and forgiveness
August 12, 2013
Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata: when a man kills his wife
August 10, 2013
Say Anything
August 09, 2013
Thoughts on my first Surgeon-on-Duty (SOD) duty as an intern
August 07, 2013
Charles Dicken's Great Expectations: the Joes and Herberts of our lives
August 06, 2013
The price of procrastination
August 05, 2013
Clingy-ness flourishes in Rehab
July 31, 2013
Binge eating
July 30, 2013
Good reads
July 29, 2013
Ricky Lee's Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata: an aswang's messianic calling to save the Philippines from his/her kind
July 28, 2013
The Phenomenon of Sleeping in Cinema
July 28, 2013
Two months
July 22, 2013
Eric Metaxas' Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy. Read this for encouragement.
July 13, 2013
New glasses
July 12, 2013
How to make your OPD Triage post worthwhile
July 10, 2013
Shorts
July 09, 2013
Honoring the details
July 06, 2013
Who are we without our memories?
July 04, 2013
Peeing
July 01, 2013
Internal Medicine Ward: Weeks 3 and 4 (June 12-25, 2011)
July 01, 2013
A dog on a leash—and some random thoughts
June 30, 2013
Sunday mornings
June 30, 2013
Feedly is a great alternative to Google Reader
June 28, 2013
Coping mechanism
June 27, 2013
Afternoon delights
June 22, 2013
6:30 am
June 14, 2013
Internal Medicine Ward: Weeks 1 and 2 (May 29 - June 11, 2013)
June 11, 2013
Wet armpits
June 08, 2013
Random updates from my Internal Medicine rotation.
May 30, 2013
29 years
May 27, 2013
Eating out
May 26, 2013
The Newsroom
May 26, 2013
Block Photo 3: Neuro-Psych OPD (May 15-21, 2013)
May 23, 2013
A new and living Way
May 20, 2013
Tsundoku and the story of my three new books
May 19, 2013
About the shrieky teenager who could not steady her hands
May 18, 2013
Maria Reiner Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Briggs: what your next-door neighbors probably think of you, if you're studying Medicine
May 17, 2013
Excessive, but of the right kind
May 16, 2013
It's May 16
May 15, 2013
Block Photo 2: Neurosurgery (May 8-14, 2013)
May 15, 2013
The Good German
May 13, 2013
Browline
May 12, 2013
Out-of-town
May 11, 2013
Things to like in Hannibal
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