I was born on Sunday 13 July 1947 and have lived all these years and just found out people fear the number 13. Nine times in my life my birthday has fallen on “FRIDAY the 13th” I would say that the number 13 has been lucky for me! Now that I ponder on it, I […]
The Mieles and the Martins
This weekend was a great LiP get together! One of our popular LiP writers, John Miele, and his family came to Davao for the weekend. John was accompanied by his wife, Rebecca and their son Juanito. John came to Davao to sort of enjoy a get-away from the city, and all that is associated with […]
It’s on the Coconut Telegraph
I admit it. I’m a Parrothead. Big time. Oh wait… some of you are asking… what the heck is a “parrothead?” Well, a Parrothead is a fan of Jimmy Buffett. For the uninitiated, Jimmy Buffet is an American Singer. His music is hard to categorize. It is not quite rock. It’s not quite country. It’s […]
Bang!
As you may recall, last week, on Feyma and my 20th Wedding Anniversary, we took a trip to Samal Island for the day. It was a nice day, as I told about in my article last week. Something unexpected happened, though, on the way home. When we arrived at the Ferry terminal for the boat […]
The Big Adventure
Prior to our youngest girl “Ymir Thea” moving to Singapore to work last year, she had a job with a large Japanese Electronics Firm on Subic Freeport, as an assistant administrator in the main office. Her supervisor tasked her with updating the company’s instruction manuals. She brought them home and worked on them, on our […]
I felt good!
I had an experience last Friday that really made me feel good. I thought I’d tell you about it today. On Thursday evening, my oldest son, Chris, mentioned to me that he wanted to go get a haircut on Friday. I needed a haircut myself, as I had not had one in 2 weeks. I […]