I put together this list for somebody else, and then thought I might share it here as well. I am not going to go into all the details of why and how these things work. At the end I include the list in a printable form you could put in your pocket or use as […]
Regarding my previous Davao Diary post, I will say, it’s not 100% true that if they say they have no money they have no rice. Culture is culture, but people are people after all. I do see more abject poverty here than I have ever seen in the U.S. That is not all I […]
Here is a cheesecake you make in the rice-cooker. I am so excited about this. It is so funny the things you crave. I like cheesecake, but it’s not really something I go out of my way to make or to buy back in the states. I’ll grab a piece at a potluck, but […]
Slightly revised, but older post. I wrote this about 8 years ago. The 19 year old is married with two kids, and we now have three kids 30 and up. Wow. A few days ago our 19 year old came home from work shaking her head. She’d been listening to the radio, a Christian station, […]
Loose, disjointed, thoughts related to being an American in the Philippines. Before we moved somebody asked us if we were prepared to be charged more and taken advantage of because we are not Filipino. I said I didn’t think that would happen that much, and so far, mostly I am right. I never feel taken […]
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