Plans, why do we bother, as they are doomed to fail, and It’s not like we have to be somewhere on time anyway. Example (1): Just before Christmas (Am I allowed to say Christmas?) I went to Olongapo City to make a deposit at my bank and take my Wife to the Night Market. I […]
It’s Almost Tax Time!
WHAT – it’s almost tax time? Hey, Paul, we’ve merely passed the first seven months of the year. What is all this claptrap about tax time? (While this article is aimed at the US Ex-pat and speaks to taxes “enjoyed” by US citizens and residents, some other countries impose similar regulations. Readers whose situation is […]
A bad habit to get into
In anybody’s life they go through good times and bad times. Good things happen to them, and bad things happen too. It’s just human nature. No life is perfect. Probably, if everything were perfect, we might be bored with life. One thing about it, though, if you have the right outlook, you will take all […]
Taking the long way home
Have you ever taken the long way home, just for the experience? I’ve done it, no doubt about it. Sometimes when we go outside our normal path we find new things that we didn’t know about before. Sometimes we learn new things, sometimes it’s good, sometimes the experience is not so good, but it is […]
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 […]
Protecting yourself
This is not an easy article for me to write. Sometimes bad things happen, and some bad things happened in my household last week. I would prefer not to write about the incident, but I feel that the information is valuable for readers of this site, so I will write about it as best I […]