As I am sure most of you have already realized, “Editor Bob” suggested all of us who contribute to the Live in the Philippines Web Magazine write an article on our ‘home city’ here where we are living in the Philippines. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, ‘Where should I live in the […]
Positive Or Negative, Where Do You Fit?
I was pleasantly surprised at the reaction to my recent article Why You’re Reading About the Philippines. In particular I’m glad that no one took my examples of how repetitive and cyclical our always present world and national crises are … so many things today sound the same as when I listened to the radio […]
Why You Can’t Live In The Philippines
Boy that’s kind of a negative sounding title, isn’t it, Dave? And besides, who died and left you in charge … where do you get off telling me what I can and can’t do? Of course I’m not in charge and of course I can’t tell you what to do… I wouldn’t even if I […]
Why You’re Reading About the Philippines
I’ve had this post sitting around “un-done” in my drafts folder for some time. Today I was housecleaning (disk cleaning) and I decided to make something out of it rather than giving it the old heave ho. It’s my thought that many of you are reading here for many different reasons, but the various reasons […]
Tourism Basics
Funny how time goes by. I’m way behind on my article writing here, and for that I can only say, sorry ‘bout that, retirement is a lot busier than I thought it would be. I started to write the sentence “a few days ago” and then I looked at the dates … turns out that […]
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 […]