Photo courtesy of NASA: Earth hanging like a Christmas ornament in space) The year is 1968 and with world in turmoil, Apollo 8, the first manned trip to the Moon, enters orbit on Christmas Eve. That evening, the crew sent their historic Christmas greeting to Earth which included the now
Last week, I attended a musical that one of the student at the college, Reina Takahashi, was performing in. The musical told the sad story of Lola Masing, a Filipino woman who was captured as a young girl by the Japanese invading forces in Antique in 1942. At the age
(Photo: “Yuki Daruma” AKA Snowmen made by the Hutton children) Wow, the snow really came down this weekend. In the past six year that I’ve lived in Kyotanabe, it has never snowed so hard! It was great. It was a heavy snow all day Saturday. The snow stayed with us most
(Photo: My rendition of the Who-ville Christmas Morning) …And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags! “It came without packages, boxes or bags!” And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler
Today, I went to a luncheon for the missionaries working in the church. After a delicious roast beef dinner with all the trimmings, we were to play a team-building game called “Marshmallow Majiwari (fellowship).” We were split randomly into teams and each team was given a handful of raw spaghetti