The Best of Intentions So, as some of you already know, I gave up smoking when I went back to the USA last month. I
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Category: Food
Cut Internet Cables, Vicious Viruses and One Poor, Lonely Ned in the Philippines
Note to Self: Don’t ever, ever, EVER drink an entire 1.5 liter bottle of Diet Coke in one afternoon again. Not getting to sleep until
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Life in the Philippines on a Comparative Basis – Part 2: The Bad
ON THE OTHER HAND… In the first part of Life in the Philippines on a Comparative Basis, the writer noted a good number of things
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Philippines House Husband, Hypermart and Fleet Foxes
Hypermart I just put up our latest trip to Hypermart video, in which I am on a quest to find a meat tenderizer. You
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Michell and Dina’s Spaghetti-Fest for the Homeless
Like many cities and towns across the Philippines, Dumaguete has it’s fair share of poor and homeless adults and – more breathtakingly – children.
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Philippines Photo Montage 5 28 15
Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve put up a photo montage, so once again it’s long past time to once again inflict
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The Kid’s Super Awesome Jollibee Party!
The kids in our little neighborhood are pretty awesome. We met them all months back when seeing a bald, pink Kano mowing the lawn
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Our 2014 Philippines Christmas Party
It started simply enough. One day, while mowing our rather diminutive lawn, I noticed that some kids had gathered outside our gate. Thoroughly Filipino, they
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Survey of Western Expats in the Philippines – Happiness, Quality of Life, Likes and Dislikes…
Robert Howard over at myphilippinelife.com conducted a survey of 134 Western Expats who are living in the Philippines. He first visited the Philippines in 1981
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Philippines, Part 1
One of the great things about living in the Philippines is the opportunity to learn (or unlearn) things about yourself. Since I have been
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