In the 17th century, the term “commonwealth” referred to an organized political community, or what today is called a “state.” Four states in our Union—Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia—are still officially called commonwealths. When they joined the United States, they chose to keep the old form instead of using “state” as their title. This is […]
The Haircut… It Was Important once!
I was thinking last Thursday while getting my hair cut, up the street at my regular barbershop here in my area of Dinalupihan Bataan. Mon-Gill has been cutting my hair now for over 7 years at ₱ 40.00, to include a trimmed mustachio and eyebrows. (A tip is always involved) I used to drive to […]
The Dewey Decimal System! Was it a hoax or are computers the real Scam?
I saw an ad on Facebook for a product called the Air-Selfie, which was a drone to replace selfie sticks. Selfie sticks remind me of watching a sword fight between Don Quiote and Windmills (From the book Penned by Miguel de Cervantes) of which I also witness at every family gathering, while wondering is it […]
What About My Balance?
The Results from my MRI, are in, when I looked at the brain pictures I had no clue as to what I was looking at. But a radiologist looked at them first before me and way before my neurologist saw them, and I read the news that I could understand off the paper he wrote.. […]
Yes Always, Keep the Receipt!
When in the olden days, if was getting paid off a ship to go on two months vacation, I always I checked all my ID’s needed to get back into the United States, when vacation is over. I check the dates on my Z-Card (Merchant Marine Document), My Sea Book that lists the type and […]
Once Upon A Time or this is no…
Day in and day out my friend Carlos who is in from Oregon for four months, and every day we walk the purok and say hello to our neighbors, all the kids give us our morning blessings (Or the Mano Po’s) a lot of the kids belong to my family so I’m Lolo daddy Paul, […]