Zorro the dog was brought home – saved – by my father from imminent death because he had a bad leg, and his original owner didn’t want to keep him because he was the weakest link among his brothers. So Zorro came to our house in 2005 while I was still mourning my recently-deceased dog,…
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These Last Couple of Months
It’s been a while, how are you guys? Lila and I spent some time in the Philippines, Julien joined us for two weeks, and now we are back in Saudi, scratching our heads in bewilderment, wondering how we got back here. Manila was great as always, although we had our fair share of bad luck:…
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Major BooBoo
During the Spanish revolution, Emilio Aguinaldo held court for Filipino freedom in Cavite, and Andres Bonifacio in Manila. Since it was inevitable that these two powerful forces joined, the two leaders set a date, a time, and a plan for the First Revolutionary Battle of the Philippines as a whole against the Spaniards. The plan…
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