Filipinos are only out for your money. I hear it every day from a lot of foreigners. I hear it from people I meet with face to face. I hear it from people who e-mail me. I remember when I first got married to Feyma. So many people told me – “Oh, she only wants […]
After lunch?
If you read the things I write regularly, it should be obvious to you that I love living in the Philippines. I love the people, I love the country. Overall, I can think of no place on the earth where I would prefer to live. However, that doesn’t mean that the Philippines is a Paradise, […]
Trouble for Alec?
We all have personal favorites when it comes to actors and actresses, and for various reasons. We also have such “artists” that we don’t care for. Personally, on my “don’t care for” list is Alec Baldwin. His acting may be OK, but I find that I simply cannot stomach his political bend. Also, he has […]
The group dynamic in the home
Do you remember in late 2008, and the early part of 2009, I wrote a series of articles about SIR? SIR means “Smooth Interpersonal Relations” and it is the basic tenet of Philippine Culture. SIR is what controls the way that society in the Philippines functions. One of the tenets of the SIR system is […]
Culture is important
Continuing this weeks series of articles about things I have learned about life here in the tropics, today I would like to look at culture. In the past, when I lived in the USA, I never really thought all that much about culture. These days, I have thought a lot about culture, and with all […]
Philippines Hood Ornament Fixation
This article isn’t really about hood ornaments (you do remember them, don’t you?), nor is it really about driving, (although I am going to talk about that a bit). it’s really about vision. Seeing things. How people see things. What people do with what they see. And (perhaps) things that can be done to make […]