Archive for the 'Family' Category

Why Have a Big Birthday Party for a One-Year-Old?

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

I don’t think I have ever been to a birthday party for a one-year-old child in America. I can’t even ever remember having heard of one before. It’s not that I have declined to attend, or that I’ve never been invited (for I haven’t), but I’ve never even heard of one. Here in The Philippines [...]

Mid-Life Crisis

Friday, April 18th, 2008

You always think there are somethings that only will happen to the other guy, not to you.   Lung cancer, prostate cancer, a flaming-gay child, stuff like that.  I would never have thought that I would be vulnerable to a mid-life crisis, but now in retrospect I see that I was set up for it all [...]