I am writing this blog a block from where my father passed in 2003. When I go home every day, I walk past the Veteran's Hospital in...

The late literary critic and professor Leonard Casper was from my father’s time.  He was two years older than my father, born 1921.  Both...

In the Philippines, we have this saying "lukso ng dugo." Lukso (jump/leap), Dugo (blood), the ethereal mesh of "leap of faith" and...

Poker Realuyo 2010-2025 For over a decade, I took a month off from my FT job and wrote in the Caribbean.  In my 20s, I was trying to...

Augusto Roa Realuyo was 21 years old when Bataan Fell in 1942. World War II is a horrifying memory. That a 20 year old Filipino who was...

#P2PPIT flyer on BlueSky I just joined BlueSky. I was hesitant to start another social media platform that I can't manage on a regular...

This month, on the 19th, my late father turns 103 years old.   In 1941 when he found himself stuck in Bataan, he was only 20 years old....

Every year since I was 19, I have spent time in another country to find a piece of Life I could grow old with. Wisdom is the seed of so...

Virginia A. Realuyo ca. 1970s Today is my mother's birthday. The picture above is one of the few pictures we have when my mother was very...

An offering for today, a Rebel Sonnet "Dear Blood" I came of age in the 1990s in New York City during the AIDS crisis. The era created...

Many things to be grateful about in a difficult world. I am grateful for my research in the past three weeks on literary agents. I have...

It's Veteran's Appreciation Month. I can't think of a better time to create a new website. Since I started writing Bataan New Jersey ...