Jaime R. Vergara, Author at Saipan Tribune

The 40-day fast

Today begins a 40-day fast. Since I am back on Saipan, I shall use the metaphor of a majority of island residents. Forty is a whole number to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is a number of completion, one generation in biblical reckoning. Forty years in the wilderness, and...

Posted On Mar 04 2014 13:40

, By Jaime R. Vergara

A 1945-2031 Memorial

There are two reasons for my being here on Saipan this week. One is to retire properly from PSS. I left on a medical leave due to a diagnosis of spondylosis of the cervical bones. I went for alternative therapy other than surgery. At the time, the government quit remitting...

Posted On Mar 03 2014 09:30

, By Jaime R. Vergara

J’aime la vie on Saipan

Like everything else, I tend to wait until the last hour before I move on something I could have done in good time previously. There was no impending holiday that I knew of, except for Mardi Gras, but we are quite a distance from Rio and New Orleans, so I did not take that...

Posted On Feb 28 2014 15:02

, By Jaime R. Vergara

In what do we trust?

In God We Trust is a phrase adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 to replace the unofficial E pluribus unum (“Out of many, one”), which has been in the United States seal since 1782. “In God do we trust” is a phrase in the fourth stanza of the poem from where...

Posted On Feb 27 2014 10:32

, By Jaime R. Vergara

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The 40-day fast

A 1945-2031 Memorial

J’aime la vie on Saipan

In what do we trust?

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