Paul M. Johnson is a marketing writer living in Joplin, Missouri. After growing up in the Philippines and Los Angeles, Paul lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and Phoenix before moving to the U.S. Midwest in 2010. He last visited the Philippines in 2012. He is married with two children.
Growing up, I didn’t know I wasn’t Filipino. As the child of Christian missionaries in the Philippines, my parents regularly reminded me that I was American and we were from “The States.” They …