Coconuts

http://lasangpinoy.blogspot.com/2008/02/lp-24-loco-over-coco.html
This entry is part of the Lasang Pinoy blogathon on coconuts.
I first encountered coconut trees while at the air field on Guam on my first trip to the Philippines. I was a mere hint of a child, with a very loud voice and an inexhaustible ability to cry. I was terrified of airplanes, and the [...]

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Flu

We’re living in a kind of time warp governed by the flu. Only Bud is unscathed. He goes about his daily duties, doing his work, taking care of everyone.
And that’s all I can type today.

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C-C-C-Catie

When I was a very little girl, my Daddy used to sing World War I songs. My favorite went like this: K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, you’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore, when the m-m-m-moon shines, over the cowshed, I’ll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door.
That song segued into a bunch of French themed songs, [...]

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Best Show in Town

HuffingtonPost.com
My advice to politicians who want to run a squeaky clean campaign. Have a squeaky clean life. I don’t think the NYT is making this stuff up.
Get an old etiquette book, Emily Post in the 1940’s would be good. Read the chapters on business travel. Upgrade to 2008.
If on a private jet with [...]

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Brilliance

Our brilliant daughter Mercy (the girl in the tiara) turned 23, and we were lucky enough to celebrate it together at home in the company of her friends. I say lucky because like the fairy godmothers who took care of Princess Aurora, we have shared her everyday company for four years more than we expected. [...]

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