A fish story

I floated out to the breach at Sugar Dock toward Tinian once but managed to get to the reef before the sun went down. I wrote of it, then had a similar experience at the reef where the stationary ships come close near Quarter Master. I wrote about it, too, which caused my editor...
Posted On Jan 28 2016 06:00
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Saipan’s Educational Opportunity

I was part of the staff that hosted a group of Japanese students from Koryo High School west of Tokyo at the Northern Marianas College (NMC) Community Development Institute (CDI), stumbling on a market need. In a four-hour set of activities, I enticed 15 Nippongo students to use...
Posted On Jan 27 2016 06:00
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Despair

A retired teaching colleague who lives at my apartment complex often goes around the parking lot picking up the trash and the ubiquitous plastic that seem to reproduce in numbers each day. One day while drizzling, he was walking aimlessly back-and-forth in the parking lot close...
Posted On Jan 25 2016 06:00
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Smoking kills

The Kent cigarette for sale at Duty Free has blunt bold letters of “smoking kills” on one side with a sentence on the other side: “Smoking can cause a slow and painful death.” The sale of tobacco is brisk if airport DFSs are to be the judge. At my house in Shenyang, along with...
Posted On Jan 22 2016 06:00
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