After leaving Dorchester (The better part of Boston) Massachusetts to join the Navy in October 1964 my first month in the service we celebrated Thanksgiving Day on base in Boot Camp in San Diego CA. I’ll admit it was good, but not near my grandmother’s cooking but good just the same. For the rest of […]
All Saints Day in the Philippines
It was a quiet Saturday morning last week, as I say at my computer sending my Nap story to Sir Bob. I heard scurrying throughout the house, as preparation were being made to head off to the bone yards to observe the “Day of the Dead, All Souls Day, All Saints Day which it is […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Deductible
The catch 22 is that as a Retired American Military man I must pay for Medicare every month albeit I can not avail of Medicare Coverage here in the Philippines. But I can use my (FREE; that so cracks me up) Tri-care Military health benefits here instead. But I can’t have Tri-Care (The free one […]
A Calamity Averted
ca•lam•i•ty (kəˈlamədē) Noun: calamity; plural noun: calamities An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. It was a Tuesday morning 14 October 2014, a day not unlike any other day, the sun came up in the East, the lizards were crawling along the wall, and Mayang just brought me a cup […]