To all my Kano friends who go through the Thanksgiving predicament every year, here in our home away from home in the land of enchantment. It started out wrong a few decades ago, a thanksgiving dinner for my family who had no idea what the heck thanksgiving even was. First in the early 1990’s trying […]
I’m alive!
Hi Fiends. Yep, you read the title right, I am still alive! I had a quadruple bypass operation on Thursday, November 10 after being admitted into the hospital on Tuesday, Nov 8. Tuesday and Wednesday, my two pre-op days were used to teach me about what to expect, for the nurses and doctors to take […]
Just an Observation
I think it’s because of smart phones and other personal devices that they have brought them back into our lives. The first one I remember was the eternal blinking clock light on the VCR’s then every appliance since the 1980’s came with a clock that no one could figure how to set. Until you could […]
Wow, just wow!
Sometimes marriages don’t work out, they end in divorce. That is probably at least as common as success, I guess. I have been lucky. In August 1990, I married Feyma Bayoy. We have been married for more than 26 years now. You all know Feyma because she regularly writes on this website. When I married […]
Time for an expat chill out?
This past couple of weeks has found a lot of email in my inbox, messages on Facebook and whatever kinds of communications are possible… I have been getting them. The vast majority have been on one topic… President Duterte and where Americans and other Western expats stand with him. To be honest, Duterte has always […]
Updated: Testing, testing
Note from MindanaoBob: I have been getting a lot of requests for me to run this article again, so I am doing so today. Additionally, I am adding a current update at the end of the article. As most of you readers will recall, back in June I had a heart attack. I came home […]