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Happy New Year!
December 31, 2015
Hello to everyone! Happy new year to you all!
"Tomorrow is the first page of a 365 page book. Write a good one." - Brad Paisley.
I like that quote. I started my new book two and a half years ago, and no, it hasn't been all wine and roses, but I love my new life. I am sitting here in my little apartment, the front and back doors wide open and a very pleasant Caribbean breeze blowing through, drying my laundry hanging in the patio.
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Happy New Year and Merry Christmas
December 26, 2015
Hello to everyone! Happy new year and merry Christmas to you all!
I am doing fine. I started a new student a couple days ago. If I counted my students correctly I have nine adults (two married couples) and 6 children. That will change in January as a couple students I didn't count have taken December off for a vacation month, and one took the last two months because she got married today.
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Giving from the heart? or...
December 15, 2015
Why do people give to charities?
Social Psychology - Helping Behavior SparkNotes Psychology Guide Series" there are two theories about why people give to charities - "public benefit" and "private benefit". In the "public benefit" theory people give out of altruistic reasons - to help others and not expect anything in return. In the "private benefit" theory people give in order to receive some benefit back to themselves. Such benefits could be tax benefits, awards, public acclamation, etc. Read More
New web site design, Malecon, Spectre
November 16, 2015
Hi! and welcome to the new look of my web site, I hope you like it.
I have changed the site to a style that I think looks better, and is much easier for me to maintain. I have simplified the .php and .html code used to build the site. The site blog pages are stored in a database. The old website design was such that each blog page had it's own separate .php file that was loaded, and while loading that page grabbed the text from the database.
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Dia del la Raza/Columbus Day in Colombia
October 12, 2015
Hi, I hope everyone is doing well. I am.
Today is Dia de la Raza (known as Columbus Day in the USA). Dia de la Raza is literally translated as 'day of the races'; that doesn't mean auto-racing or anything like that, it means people, ethnicities. It is a day to celebrate the heritage, colonization and cultural diversity of Latin America. But to the indigenous people of Colombia it is much different. They see it as a day to remember the painful and brutal conquest of their land by the Spaniards in the 15th and 16th centuries. So, now for a little history lesson:
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