It’s already November! Where does the time go? If it’s November, for American Citizens, that means it’s turkey time! Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Every year, I hear from a ton of Americans that you just can’t get turkey in the Philippines. They moan and groan about the lack of turkey that they really […]
What Did You Say?
My sweet and wonderful wife Mayang seems to get angry with me lately and increasingly more as the years go by. Her complaint is; “Honey Ko, you don’t listen to what I say?” That is not true, for how busy do you think my day can get that I would ignore her on purpose? The […]
Drinking, when is enough?
I was reading on my kindle and looking at the cover of the book. I thought it’s about a dog. I guess it was really about the dog too, because the dog was helping them heal from heartache. Then when I started reading, it’s also about the kids who will be losing their dad. He was charged with […]
What if I die in the Philippines?
Death is not a fun topic. Nobody is going to get all excited to talk about death in the Philippines. It is a fact of life, though, and we really should make plans for what will happen in the event of our death. Recently, I got a question from Paul regarding death. Paul was wondering […]
The Nap, a Right and a Privilege
It all started with my mother, putting me down for a nap a few times a day when I was an infant. My developing infant brain must have deemed mapping as a wonderful thing. In Kindergarten the teacher reinforced the napping tradition. And for reasons that I’ll never understand it was snatched painfully from my […]
Getting a maid – EAM
Most expats and also nearly all wealthier Filipinos have maids. In our western culture, having a maid is not something that we do, and it can be a difficult adjustment to make for us, because it is so “outside the box”. Getting a maid in the Philippines is something that has changed drastically in the […]