Before the advent of the overpriced convenience stores like the Jiffy Mart, 7-11, Quick Stop appeared in my area of Dorchester. (Part of Boston) Back in the 1950 & 60’s we only had the corner store, ran by mom & pop “Whoever” that provided the everyday items between trips to the Stop & Shop or […]
It’s All About the Technology
I wish I had grown up with Facebook and Twitter and those other forms of foolishness. But now at age 70 I have no interest in the lives of celebrities or what people ate for lunch and I’m concerned even less as to what they think. I went out into the world and found out […]
Rain Drops Keep Falling…
I don’t know what he does for a living now, but years ago he sold Movies in CD format, in front of some of the open air bars in the Barrio. They were cheap about 25 pesos each, and the quality was fair to terrible, we never got angry because that was his rice bowl […]
Of Course My Knickers Are In A Twist!
18 long years, with absolutely no internet, the semi experts at all the big “3” Cell Phone and computer service stores telling me I was just doomed to spend my life off line, which in fact might have made the online Philippines a better place without me there to post dumb stuff. Then at a […]
The Price is Right?
Walking through the new Royal grocery store last week on the Subic Freeport, I was on the cereal aisle and was reaching up to pick a box of Honey Cheerios. A Kano was walking by and pointed out how costly they were. I laughed and agreed, and I pointed out that the package they came […]
As I see It from Bataan
Sitting on a lofty mountain in Bataan gazing south to Mindanao pondering the situation and thinking back to the 1970’s and 80’s and what was going on then… I was here in Olongapo City many times during Martial Law years ago, it was Inconvenient, for American servicemen who were here at the time, but that was […]