I might have mentioned in the past, that my son-in-law Chris is in charge of his Family’s farm out in the Subic Valley. His dad passed last year, and with Chris being the eldest son, he is now responsible for the day to day running of the family farm, whilst other members of the family […]
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller wrote a play about Willy Loman an American salesman, yet I doubt if he’d ever ran into a salesman in the Philippines. It’s a whole different game here. The guy or girl will show up at your gate, with a clipboard taking a survey about one thing or the other. Attempting to tell you […]
My Non Profit Mini-Storage Business
I’m not sure if it’s really a storage business per say, all though two complete bedrooms in my house are used for that purpose, and not by me. It seems that when our oldest girl got married 9 years ago she never really moved out of our house. Her old bedroom is packed to the […]
Out of Stock
Out of stock is a catch phrase for just about anything you need and can’t find. It’s a term I use a lot (jokingly) since I first arrived here. I caught on to how it works back in the early 1990’s. You could be in a large grocery store see the young employee stocking spam. […]
The Days after; “A Simple Day”
So there I was, foolishly thinking the work trimming trees was done, The Saturday turned into Sunday, slid into Monday as the work continues on the “Mango Tree Project” (that could be the name of a jazz band). We paid our crew of four original workers, and then we noticed six more teenagers had joined […]
A Simple Day
It was last week and a Saturday morning; I’m on the “Puter,” connected to the world, when I notice the twins were absent, they weren’t inside the house, or in the front or the backyard. But then I heard chopping and falling branches on the empty lot next-door to our house. I went to investigate, […]