In 1964 when I started the senior year at Dorchester HS in Boston (Where BTW I had always received decent grades), but by the 25th of October I was bored to tears and needed a way to satisfy my wanderlust. I had always wondered what was over that next hill. That day I walked out […]
Get a Wife, Change Your Life
As we hit the New Year 2015 I was reflecting back while enjoying a cold refreshing SMB as to how I’d gotten to the Philippines. I know a lot of LiP readers planned and planned some more about their decision but I really didn’t. A lot of my life I left up to Karma or […]
A Really Bad Idea
When opening a business in the Philippines or anywhere for that matter, the key to success is to find the need and satisfy it. Find what is missing, that people need and you can try and provide it A Sari-sari store where there is one every 50 meters and they all sell the same thing […]
When Wiser Heads Prevail
It was a Tuesday morning the second of December 2014 when our Mitsubishi G-4 Mirage finely reached 5000 kilometers, that is a milestone in our cars life or would that be a kilometerstone? Metric still confuses me. But it did take me 10 months to reach it just the same. I had been in to […]
Ride Lil Dude Ride
T’was the night before the Pacman’s Pay-per View fight my wife and daughter had just spent two days re-purposing my granddaughter’s electric powered toy ATV. It has been sitting in the spare room for over ten years because as a little girl she didn’t really like it that much. But now that the Lil Dude […]
As the Seasons Change
No I’m not talking about back on the Olde Sod where you’re from; I’m talking about right here on the more than 7,000 Islands known as the Archipelagos of the Philippines. Here on Luzon in my section of Bataan, the rainy season is ending and the Christmas Season is starting. I know that technically it […]