We all have plans in life. Sometimes our plans all work out, most of the time, though, things don’t necessarily work out as we planned. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, in fact, many times things out better than we had expected or even hoped for. My first time to visit the Philippines was in […]
The Crab guy made me crabby!
On Monday of this week, I guess it just wasn’t my day! From early morning and all through the day, I had a series of things happen that just did not make for a nice day for me. First thing in the morning, Feyma and I were sitting out on the patio talking. We had […]
Things left behind…
I don’t often think negative thoughts, especially negative thoughts about my life in the Philippines. Last night, though, my thinking bordered on being negative. Maybe it was not really negative, but more reflective. Let me tell you what happened. I was up kind of late, because I was unable to sleep. Normally, I sleep kind […]
Hey, we all make mistakes!
It’s true, isn’t it? Every one of us makes mistakes. We can only hope that we make few serious mistakes, and that we learn from the mistakes that we do make. Over my years of visiting the Philippines (from 1990 until 1999) and my years of living in the Philippines (2000 until 2012 so far), […]
But, Bob, why Davao?
A while back, I wrote an article here on LiP based on an e-mail I had received. The e-mail asked me why I chose to live in Davao. I interpreted the meaning to actually be “why did you choose to live in the Philippines,” and I based my answer on that interpretation. But, a smart […]
You may be stepping on a landmine!
As you can imagine, I get a lot of e-mails with various questions about visiting the Philippines, and also about living here. One of the most frustrating things to me is when somebody sends me an e-mail through one of my websites, and when I take the time to send them a reply, the message […]