Redding, California, USA, May 25—Today, Memorial Day, throughout the United States, all of media are replete with remembering—paying tribute, honor, and respect to those who “have fallen in service.” But, as one newspaper says, it is also a day to honor the living who fought and survived America’s wars. And so, on a personal note, [...]

“Frolic in the pristine waters and dance in the brilliant white sand.” Every word a touristy come-on for us who had chosen the 3-hour sojourn to Nassau’s Blackbeard Beach. Rather than remain in the cruise ship SENSATION (for more bingo, music, scavenger hunt, faces trivia, etc.), we chose to have a dip in Nassau waters, [...]

Bluffton, South Carolina, USA, March 30—It’s springtime in the U.S. of A. Beautiful day! Blue skies and sunshine all over as far as the eye can see. Yet, mornings can be foggy if only in the mind of the thousands of Americans laid off from their jobs. No promise of employment in the foreseeable future [...]

Media’s thundering roar on ROR (gosh, what a homonym for the Right of Reply) sent the bill cowering in the corner like a whipped dog. Now on the throes of death, I doubt very much it will pass Congress. Let the sponsors of ROR convince fellow legislators to support the bill, and let’s see who [...]

In the run-up to International Women’s Day, March 8, many schools, clubs, and associations are geared up to honor womankind. This is especially a prolonged commemoration here in the States, March having been proclaimed since 1987 as the United States’ Women’s History Month. America’s women must have experienced the scope of the uneven playing field [...]

Feb. 20, Sunday, was TV overload. Up till midnight all because of the “Oscars” climax. Immediately after dinner, the big box was on for the Academy Awards night ceremonies that ended very late Eastern time on our side of the States (this writer being in hibernation here in South Carolina). We stayed through to the [...]

Myrtle Beach, one of USA’s popular beach resorts, is in South Carolina, the home state of my daughter Randy’s family. From their residence in Bluffton, it was some four-hour drive in the freeway. Without traffic frenzy, ours was a joy ride, passing long miles of evergreens whose greenness remains unfazed by winter. Myrtle Beach was [...]

MANY a commentary whether for good or bad, positive or negative, complimentary or defamatory, has been said of fathers and their sons. Novels, short stories, movies, songs are rich in this relationship theme. There’s Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, in the list of home reading books for students of literature. Among various ditties, [...]

RADIANT joy is what we wish and pray for all of the world—the radiance springing from a deep sense of Faith, Hope, and Love — St. Paul’s credo that encompasses all religions, or no religion, too, as the Beatles would have it.
The radiant joy we experienced in the last gasps of 2008 is spilling over [...]

BLUFFON, South Carolina, USA—Today Dec.10, as I write this, is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day. A historic date, it is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) when the United Nations General Assembly called upon its Member Countries to publicize the text of the Declaration, “to cause it to [...]