Today, June 19, 2020, is Juneteenth Day Should it be a National Holiday? Juneteenth is a day celebrated nationally, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Although slavery officially ended in the United States with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, some slaves in the South did not know that they […]
Today is THE Day!
I’ve been keeping you guessing! Today is the day that we are homeowners again! So for the past week or so, I have been teasing on Facebook about our new home! I’ve posted pictures that everybody thought were pictures of our new house, but those were just pictures of the garage! I’ve been saving the […]
Home Ownership USA vs. Philippines
We have not owned a home since 2000 That might change soon! We bought our last home in Washington State in 1993. In 2000 we sold it in preparation for our move to the Philippines. Feyma and I lived in the Philippines for nearly 20 years, and never owned a home there. On my previous […]
Living in Limbo
Having COVID brings great uncertainty Am I still positive? If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past weeks, it is that there is a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to having COVID. You may remember that I was tested as positive a little over 2 weeks ago. At the time my […]
Living with COVID19
Three in our family are positive for COVID We are doing well On April 24 I was scheduled to have a medical procedure done on my eyes. I called the clinic several days in advance to make sure that the appointment would go forward as planned and they assured me that everything was still going […]
COVID 19 – The Curve
The Experts are trying to flatten the Curve But, is it happening? Ever since the COVID Virus became the focus of our lives, the experts are all saying that we are taking steps to flatten the curve. In other words, keep the number of cases lower so that the graph will have a lower curve. […]