Our second son is Aaron Martin. Aaron is 10 years old, and will be 11 very soon. Actually if you sit down and talk with Aaron or watch him for a while you would probably agree with me that Aaron is 10, going on 30. Aaron, or AJ as I call him is a very […]
Some people just don’t understand
When I first decided that I wanted to live in the Philippines in the mid-90’s, some people just could not understand why I would want to do that. I didn’t make the move until 2000, and in the interim, a lot of people asked me why I wanted to do such a crazy thing. They […]
Introducing Chris
I have mentioned my son Chris many times on this blog. Chris is 15 years old, and will be 16 later this year. I have mentioned here before that Chris is mentally retarded, and that was part of the reason why we moved here to begin with. We felt that on a personal level there […]
Our beloved daughter JeanJean!
Bob and I been married now for seventeen years next month. We have been blessed with 3 good looking boys. We never thought of having more babies just to have a girl. When we had our first 2 boys, we even decided that two is enough already. Our third child was unexpected. We are happy […]
Communications with Filipinos
I got an e-mail the other day from a regular reader of this blog and he asked me to write about how to effectively communicate with Filipinos. He was particularly interested in how to get his ideas across without hurting the feelings of Filipinos, especially the feelings of his in-laws. I would tend to agree […]
How I helped reduce Feyma’s pressure
As I told you in my post earlier today, Feyma had some difficulties in adjusting to living back in the Philippines. She returned to the world of her childhood, yet when she came back here to live she quickly learned how much she had changed sine becoming a woman in the United States. Others around […]