Every year it gets easier to live in the Philippines as long as you can keep being creative. This year as Christmas is approaching I’ve tallied up was owed to me by some members of the family. And I’ve decided to forgive the debt vice giving a present to them. (Don’t go all ballistic on […]
Summer Time; When The Living Is Easy
Beware the ides of March is an old expression dating back to Julius Caesar and his buddy Brutus. It also holds the biggest holiday in my old hometown of Boston, and that would be Saint Patrick’s Day, A day that in the past I’ve tried to celebrate here in the Philippines with my family, but […]
New Year with a new goal: I’m cooking!!!
Happy New Year to all of you. I’m sure everyone is thinking now of the new year ahead of us. Are you one of those folks that will set a goal for the year? I guess, this year I will try again to set a goal for the whole year. I did set goals when […]
Why I hate New Years Eve
This is a story about New Years Eve and how and why I do it this way. It occurred to me years ago that my family here in the RP had a tradition celebrating the New Year that went back to when my wife Mayang was a kid. It had never changed until I entered […]
MindaClaus rides again!
Well, it is Christmas day as I write this article, and it has been a wonderful Christmas for me and my family so far! Yesterday was a super day for us, and I want to share it with all of you here on LiP who helped make it possible. As any regular reader of the […]
A Ken Doll??
A while ago I posted a joke on Face Book about how I wanted a Kindle E-Reader for Christmas and I said that under the tree I spied a present with my name on it, I silently opened the present to find a Ken Doll instead, and I chocked it up to language barrier. The […]