Okay.  I’m listening, Lord.  You have my attention.  Teach me, lead me, show me.  I want to give all for you. It was a beautiful morning as I rode my bike to the office, and the above is a summary of my prayer this morning. God is trying to get my attention.  I know because I’ve been here

I’m sure bullying exists everywhere that there are people. But in some places it is worse than others. When we moved as a family from rural Mount Pleasant to the mill town of North Braddock in the summer of 1963, it was an eye opener. I became aware of how much time boys spend jockeying

  Among the wildly psychedelic Saturday morning cartoons of 1969 to 1970 existed the live animated series by Sid and Marty Kroft. My favorite one as a boy was H.R. PufnStuf.  It was like an LSD trip on TV  to describe the visual sensory experience.  The colors of the show were bright and vivid. The story was about a

The 4th of July is here and while many are drawn appropriately to the revolutionary founders of this great country and the historic beginnings of what will become the United States of America,  my own thoughts are drawn to my birthplace,  the island of Guam.   Guam is a part of the United States. It is a

Life with a teenaged boy can be interesting.  Trying at times, but definitely interesting.  Especially when he is such an extrovert.  There is nothing outside the limits of his curiosity, or his humor.  Nothing.  I like that about him (usually). Put two of them under one roof, add the cover of darkness and sparklers, insanity is

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Thirty years ago under the  a clear night sky filled with stars, I joined the class of 1978 and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Tumon, Guam.   Guam is one of the United States’s few remaining territories and it is as American as Apple Pie….or at least as Pineapple! School Song Kennedy Alma Mater Kennedy,

  On July 21st Guam celebrates its 64th Liberation Day commemoration marking the day the United States retook the island from Japan after over two years of occupation in World War II.  My father and my mother along with their families were there during that horrific occupation time period.  It is now etched in our family

Remember the 8th grade yearbook? I remember going around trying to get people to sign mine. I was nervous. I wanted them to sign something cool and original. What invariably happened was the guys would write something like, “Dude, what’s it feel like having someone write in your crack?” The girls would write something like,

I know that listing is best left to Jack Black and Nick Hornby. But, it’s fun sometimes. The urge to canonize is essential to understanding a medium- or at least, to the fetishization of it- so I thought, with a healthy sense of irony, I could get away with a little play on