Last Friday was a fun and interesting day for Feyma and I. We spent the day entertaining some guests who are in town, Kevin Smith, and his wife Bebing. Longtime readers of this site may remember Kevin, when we first converted to a multi-author platform, Kevin was a writer on this site. I had never […]
What Can We Learn From a Train?
Yesterday I was doing a lot of thinking about some of the discussion here regarding earning a living. I hadn’t intended when I took this column on to make it an entrepreneur’s’ journal and certainly not a “make money online” column, although these are my current ‘hot button’ subjects. But I am of an age […]
Is it early? What do you think?
A couple of days ago, I wrote a column about Gated Communities, and one of the regular site readers, Carolynn commented that caroling and such during the Christmas season would only last for a few days. Carolynn has only been here for a short time, so she didn’t understand that Christmas goes on for months […]
Magic Smoke
You know what makes appliances and other electric items work, right? It’s magic smoke that is put inside by the manufacturer. Have you ever had a small appliance that you plugged into the wall outlet and a puff of smoke came out? If so, did you notice that the item didn’t work after the smoke […]
A drive through Babak
For today’s Live in the Philippines Vidcast, I’m going to take you along for a ride through Babak, Samal, and also a short section in Limao, Samal. I am driving, Feyma is shooting the video, and all you have to do is watch the scenery! Do you know how Samal Island is set up, administratively? […]
In the Philippines, Not Of the Philippines
I received a very good comment a day ot two ago which made several good points and I didn’t feel a direct answer in the comments block was adequate to explain myself fully. So I’ll break my “once a week, Monday morning” posting schedule and cover the subject here in a ‘Bonus Post’. Here’s the […]