This article was the one I was going to submit last week, but Mayang’s trip to the hospital caused me to do a re-write. This is about health and exercise, and me getting fit and trim. I joined the Navy with a 27 inch waist and finished boot camp with it going up to 29 […]
What Very Little I Know
On Christmas day we admitted my wife to the North Pointe Hospital on Subic Freeport, Let me explain she is home now and just fine. She had an infection starting in her foot, and while there they found a kidney stone and admitted her for a few days. MY WIFE MAYANG IS FINE!!! Our daughter […]
High Tech Christmas
That Saturday (17 Dec.) was Christmas shopping at the mall day for the Thompson Family. I swear I was not the one to pick a Saturday morning to go to a mall here in the Republic of the Philippines; my first choice would have been to receive a beating from a few large men, than […]
Peter Pan Syndrome
Here it is just a week before Christmas and I’m in the Christmas Spirit and have been for awhile. I know how old I am, as my body reminds me on a daily basis as to that fact. But my mind won’t believe it. As a matter of fact, it rejects the concept of aging […]
Now I’ve Seen It All
A few years ago my friend was moving from one house he owned here on Luzon to another. It went smoothly until at the end we’re looking at his 1957 Chevy which the body is on blocks and the frame and running gear is separated. The frame is easy; we push it like it was […]
Our Barangay Crime Wave
Here on the mountain in Barangay Roosevelt Bataan we have a full scale crime wave within out sleepy corner of paradise. Oh prey tell this is not the first time, as we all sadly remember a couple of years ago when Do-Dong was in love with Miss Peachy Pie, and he declared his un-dying love […]