Friday, January 06, 2023 Today is Día de Los Reyes in Panama and although it shockingly isn’t giving us another official holiday, it’s still an important day for the Catholic-prone country.  In other Hispanic countries such as Mexico, Spain and Venezuela, it’s even more important for kids who await anxiously to receive even more gifts.  […]

Friday, December 30, 2022 Growing up in a small midwestern town in the middle of nowhere, our townsfolk were quite set in their ways.  We were used to extremely cold winters, hard manual labor year ’round, strong Christian beliefs and a firm handshake.  Women were women, men were men and the cows ran scared.  Just […]

Friday, December 23, 2022 This year, just like every year, we all get overwhelmed with Panama’s excessive traffic and last minute shoppers.  Sometimes, we’re the culprit of the same procrastination.  This year, luckily, with a little extra effort, we as a family have been able to get a jump on things and got decorations done […]

Friday, December 16, 2022 Due to circumstances beyond my control, ie, Christmas baking, Christmas shopping, Christmas cleaning, Christmas present wrapping, Christmas-related investigations, Christmas decorating, Christmas party preparations and planning for fishing, this introduction is going to be short.  But I do offer you a photo of part of the fun: TOP NEWS and TIDBITS: Yoli’s […]

Friday, December 09, 2022 We’ve been trying to go fishing to Gamboa for quite some time now.  We have a small lake boat and it’s nice to get out and putz around in it for a few hours even if just to keep the motor in tiptop condition.  A few months ago, after selling my […]

Friday, December 02, 2022 Theft is up in Panama.  To that, there’s no doubt.  What makes this an even bigger problem is that they types of theft, the overall risk assessment, shows that there are now more aggravated thefts than ever.  Even if it’s just from an outsider’s perspective, no one is seemingly safe from […]

Friday, November 25, 2022 Happy Thanksgiving everyone – we personally have quite a bit to be thankful for.  My USA family has had a few additions brought on in the last year, everyone is relatively healthy and happy.  I’m keeping this short as apart from Thanksgiving celebrations, we have roughly 5 birthday parties this weekend […]

Friday, November 18, 2022 After five weeks of agony… … vile, excruciating agony… … my Green Bay Packers finally won another game last weekend and it was against a tougher opponent than what we’ve seen in the last few weeks.  I guess even when we’re playing poorly, our team still figures out a way to […]

Friday, November 11, 2022 At today’s Veteran’s Day event at the Corozal Cemetary, it was great to see some familiar faces, Tony Bonilla, Tom Lord, Dalton Johnson, Carlos Herrera and Melvin Nickel.  It was especially great to see the participation of Abou Saad Shriners, Association of the United States Army, Boy Scouts, US Embassy, ELKS, […]

Wednesday, November 02, 2022 When I was little, my step-dad used to play guitar to us and it was amazing.  He was a good guy with a beautiful soul who made stupid mistakes… … very stupid mistakes.  The short version of THAT story is that he was taken away from us for one of those […]