When you get into a discussion with any expat here that comes from a Western Country, it is inevitable that you hear about how far “behind the times” the Phiippines is. Unfortunately, in most cases in my experience, that is probably true, but things are improving a lot too. I can remember, when I came […]
Recycle Time!
Lately our kids have been pretty active in recycling of our cans and bottles, boxes and plastic. They’ve been working with Inday (The lady that help us around the house) my nieces and nephew. Really they gather quiet a lot of cans and bottles due to over the holidays we’ve been consuming a lot of […]
Driving in the Philippines
Today’s guest column is from our regular contributor, Jim Cunningham. Jim recently relocated to the Philippines, and is living in Talakag, Bukidnon. Having at last taken the plunge and purchased a set of wheels I now know what other people mean when they talk about driving in the Philippines. In all the 25 plus years […]
Unbelievable, but normal
As I type this, it is mid-morning on Thursday here in the Philippines. We have been experiencing unusual weather here in Davao for a while now, maybe 2 or 3 weeks. As Rusty wrote yesterday, it has been quite cool here in the Philippines, and that includes Davao City. I’m not really writing an article […]
More About Heroes
A couple weeks ago in my last column I took the government of the Philippines to task for continually squandering the greatest national resource of the Philippines … it’s people. Training an engineer, for example, up through college and then sending him off to costs the country a fortune. A couple people misinterpreted this to […]
We’ve been sued!
No, no… I am not currently being sued, thankfully. I mean, I was sued in the past. Feyma and I were sued here in Davao about 6 years ago. It was all a bunch of nonsense, and thankfully, it all worked out OK, but I thought I would relay the story to you, perhaps it […]