In my last couple of articles in the Life of Love series, Feyma had arrived in the States. From day one she was experiencing a lot of things that were new to her. As I pointed out a couple of articles back, on the way home from the airport, which was in the dead of […]
A Life of Love: Food
In my last installment of my “Life of Love” series, Feyma had arrived in the United States. Today, I will reflect on some of our travel experiences and also about eating, food, and such. The cooking chores I had always been a fairly good cook and did pretty much all of the cooking for my […]
A Life of Love: The Questioning
As I told you in last week’s installment of “A Life of Love” – in preparation for our wedding, Feyma and I had to attend a couple of pre-marriage seminars. There were two required seminars. First was a seminar that was required by the Philippine Government, it was focused on birth control. Apparently, this kind […]
A Life of Love: The Prep
OK, so Papa’s permission for the wedding was firmly in place, so the wedding was on. Feyma had already said yes to my proposal before “The Talk” with Papa, with the only caveat being that I had to secure the permission of her father. In the Philippines, if you want to marry, you have to […]
A life of love. The peering eyes
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 […]