Can you believe it? I hit the big Five Oh Oh – 5 0 0 – today! No, that’s not my age, so don’t start making those jokes on me! What I mean is that as of this very article, I have personally written 500 original articles for this website! LiP got started out in […]
Only the Lead Dog Ever Gets a New View
There’s little doubt that one of the things most often talked about when education and helping families in the Philippines comes up is nursing and nursing school. Let me go on record right now and state clearly that I have a great respect for nurses, and the nursing profession. I need to make that crystal […]
My friend that I never got to meet
I lost a friend a few weeks ago. He passed away at a young age, just 48, way too young to die. I say that I lost a friend, but the truth is that I never met the man. I felt like he was a friend, though. He was a man that I wanted to […]
Talking with Inday
Yesterday I was talking to our laundry lady (her name is Inday). She just came back on working with us again. She worked for us before like 2 years ago. The kids really liked her and she liked our kids too especially our youngest one. Before she left 2 years ago, she asked me if […]
Is Leadership Out Of Style?
One of the mixed blessings of the aging process is that I’m prone to remember things. Of course I’m prone to forget things from time to time too, but we won’t talk about that right at the moment. There are times that my memory and my grasp of the past is so comprehensive that I […]
Did I choose correctly?
Yesterday, I wrote about the big “controversy” that broke out on Compuserve. BrSpiritus made a comment saying that when he married here in the Philippines, the decision was controversial among his family and friends. When I read that, it reminded me of an incident that happened to me when I first came to the Philippines. […]