Personal

Life is the onion that makes us cry stinging hot tears of life’s frustration as we peel off each layer of our existence to reach the truth ~1974~

My father was the youngest of four brothers. The oldest died at Normandy, on D-Day. The second oldest died at Guadalcanal. The third oldest died in Korea. My father served in Korea in the U.S. Coast Guard, and survived. Both my brother and I attended military schools, and we were both prepared to enter the [...]

Read my blogging disclaimer, posted, and unedited since more than 5 years ago. If you don’t like it. F**K YOU! This blog is not here to make your life happy, but it is intended to make this World a better place.

So, some people are asking my why I haven’t posted a new blog post in two months now. Good question, and not one easily answered. I would recommend Jungle Jil’s Blog for updates about ex-pat life in the CdO area and Northern Mindanao. I found a great link on his blog to a terrible Baseline [...]

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 [...]

Back when I was in college I took off every Summer and went hitch-hiking to Canada.  This is no small feat for a boy from Florida as Canada is at least a couple of thousand miles from where I lived. However, Canada was then a lot more hospitable to Americans than America was, and I [...]

I was interviewing an Xavier University 4th-year male nursing student who is keenly interested in SEO (Search Enginee Optimization), to do some work for me, and in the process he also “interviewed” me, asking a lot about what I thought about life in The  Philippines. (Normally, I take no part in hiring and firing for [...]

My brother-in-law said when he driving home last night he saw a snake in the road.  I asked him why he didn’t catch it.  Some snakes are valuable.  Some are more valuable than others, but you really have to catch them first, so that you can ID them, otherwise they are gone. A couple of [...]

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 [...]

This will be a post in progress.  I will add more as I think of them. 1.  The middle name of a child born in The Philippines must be the maiden name of the mother.   As a result of this law I was not allowed to name my recently born son “Horace O’Donal Turner, [...]