As I told you in an article earlier this week, Feyma, the kids and I were down in General Santos last week for the wedding of a niece. Before going to the wedding, we had a chance to visit with some family members for a while. I got a chance to talk with one of […]
A Vacation from a Vacation
The day after Mothers Day we received a surprise here in Bataan. A week-long visit from our daughter, who works in Singapore, a better Mother’s Day could not have been planned, and the look of happiness on my wife’s face was priceless. Naturally our eldest daughter came to the house with my granddaughter to spend […]
Love or Hate?
When it comes to Philippine weddings, I have a love-hate relationship with them. What do I love about them? What do I hate about them? Well, I’ll get into that later in the article, but first let me explain how I got to thinking about this topic. Last week, Feyma and I went to General […]
Talk to your family
Lately, I have been burdened with a lot of bad news. I’m talking deaths of friends. As I told you a few weeks ago, I had one friend who recently killed himself. I have known several other expats here in the Philippines who have died of late, unfortunately. It seems that nearly ever week for […]
A Half Century
Do you remember when you turned 50? If you’re not there yet, stop reading now, I don’t want you to panic about it. I remember mine quite well; I woke up early one morning at my company’s contract hotel in San Diego CA. When I checked the time I also noted that it was also […]
A tragedy in the family!
I am writing today about what happened to my nephew. His name is Kevin. He is 9 years old. His just 3 days younger than my youngest son Jared. He is kind of quiet kid, I think because they just moved to Mindanao last year from Manila. He is still adjusting to everything here. He […]