Snap, Pop. What's old is new again. 

by Mike Kravinsky

Why is it that medium and large size dogs are not permitted in the cabin of a commercial aircraft? It's a pretty rough ride for a dog who weighs more than 15 pounds. There is the occasional story about some poor dog who died when the cargo hold got too hot or cold, or escapes on a tarmac never to be...

We returned home from our Philippine holiday on December 26th. The first shock was having to pay $3 for a baggage cart at JFK. Oh yea, we're back in the US. So now home for about a week, I decided to think about the whole retirement expat thing.  To start, as much as Filipino's like Americans a...

Nothing special in this blog, just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I think 2009 is going to be great. I'm very hopeful of positive change with the new administration. Hopeful my retirement savings will re-appear. And even after our great trip to the Philippines over Christmas, hopeful wher...

A new Pew Research report finds as a nation most people are staying put. 

New Gallup Poll on Religious Life in America

We are spending the Christmas holidays with my father in law in the Philippines. There's a large and growing community of what is called balikbayan's or "return to country".  The many retirees like my father in law, a doctor, who spend a career in the U.S. and now will spend his retirement back...