When I left off on my last article of this series, we had just arrived in General Santos City, Mindanao. We were heading to Feyma’s family home in Barangay Lagao. Traveling a dirt highway on the back of a flatbed truck. It was a little bit of a different experience than I was used to […]
A Life of Love: Heading to Mindanao
I was less than a week into my first trip to the Philippines. The trip was not so much about visiting the Philippines, rather it was about visiting a lady that I had met some 6 months earlier and exchanged a lot of mail and a few phone calls with… Feyma. Of course, visiting a […]
A Life of Love: At the hotel in Cebu City
It has been a few weeks since I have written in my series “A Life of Love.” There have been some holidays during that time, so we decided to delay the articles until we got more back to “normal times”. Hope you don’t mind. Feyma had decided that she would stay with me at the […]
A Life of Love. The trip.
As I told you in my last article, in 1990, I began writing letters to Feyma, we were pen-pals. By mid year, I felt that I wanted to meet her in person. We had written to each other for about 6 months, and talked on the phone a few times. I wanted to take the […]
A Life of Love. The Beginning.
Letter Writing OK, time for part 2 of my blog series, A Life of Love. It seems like a lot of people enjoyed part 1, so that made me happy, and encouraged me to get going with part 2! When Feyma and I first started writing letters to each other, that was in 1990. There […]
A Grandpa at Last
My life changed in December 2020 It changed for the better I have a new normal. But, the new normal that I am addressing today has nothing to do with COVID. Everything in my life instantly became different, in a good, great way. My old normal was very different My old-normal was a very different […]