… has come and passed. A new phase has just begun, and the length of its “season” is entirely up to each, individual person involved. Are you involved? Maybe; maybe not. Let’s find out. The somewhat magical day cited in the title is the day that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service started accepting electronically filed […]
Trip to the barbershop… want to come along?
I have a little project that I have been working on for the past couple of months. I want to provide more video content on this website. I am not an expert, or anything close, in terms of doing video, so I have to learn. Over the past few weeks, I have been buying some […]
Expat Answerman: Financial Sponsorship
When you are sponsoring your wife or fiance to get a visa to come to the USA, you have to prove your financial capacity to support her. What about if you are moving to the Philippines to be with your spouse, fiance or girlfriend? Will she have to show that she is financially capable of […]
Stranger In The Night
Mayang (Mrs. Thompson) made her New Years Journey around the corner to her mother’s house a long hard five minutes away. This is a ritual we have observed for a couple of decades. Since I receive no joy from New Years Eve, and for the most part never had, even back to my youth. I […]
My Favorite Time of Year
Every year I bemoan the yearly drive to the Mega SM Mall in San Fernando Pampanga. One and one half hours drive away. Do we have a New SM Mall in Olongapo? Why yes we do but it’s different in Pampanga as it was explained to me. My Daughter, granddaughter and Son-in-law Chris arrive at […]
It’s Kinda Funny That Way
In November I wrote about a man I met and called him Mr. Missouri, but do to time limitations, I left out the flipside to the story. I’ll preface it by saying my circle of friends have all been married for quite awhile, which makes perfect sense as none of us is a kid anymore. […]