Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Life Is The Onion

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

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~

Military Family, not Militant

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

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 [...]

For those who missed it….

Friday, September 16th, 2011

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.

Stop Blogging? Never!!

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thunder Road

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

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 [...]

The State of This Nation, The Philippines

Monday, August 25th, 2008

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 [...]

Snakes & Tarantulas

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stupid Filipino Laws

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

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, [...]