Well a week ago I post about my mother-in-law coming here for a visit. She’s here with us now for over a week. I’m really shocked of some of her adjustments being here in the Philippines. As you recall she was here like 8 months ago. At that time she had a hard time adjusting […]
Follow up on caring for our elders
Not long ago, I wrote a piece about how I felt it was important to consider bringing your parents or other elderly people to the Philippines so that you could provide care for them here. I argued that better care could be provided here for a fraction of the cost that you’d pay in the […]
Exciting and busy week!
The kids have been counting days now. My mother-in-law is coming to town for a visit this Friday. She will stay with us for two months. She’s just here eight months ago over Thanksgiving and Christmas. The thing is she promised our two kids to be here on their birthdays, she wants to live up […]
Offering care for your elders
Back in the ’90s when I still lived in the USA, I had a friend who was living in General Santos. We had never met, but Mike was an American living in General Santos and we became friends through the Internet. Mike was in his 60’s at the time and had been living outside the […]
A special day for me
Today is a very special day for me. I can’t say what the date is as you read this, but here in the Philippines, it is August 9th as this is published. August 9 is a day that holds a lot of memories for me, and I wanted to share some of those memories here. […]
Introducing Jared
Our youngest son is Jared Martin. Jared is 7 years old now. Remember, I have lived here in the Philippines for 7 years, so as you can figure, Jared was very young when we moved here! Actually, Jared was one month and a few days old when we arrived in the Philippines as immigrants here. […]