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A pope for all season

Pope Francis’ contagious smile went on display in America late September. Greeted by President Obama at Andrews on the 22nd and welcomed to Washington, D.C.’s White House the following day, the pope’s open side popemobile conveyed the pontifice every mile on land, including a...
Posted On Oct 02 2015 06:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Chuseok

The mid-autumn festival during the autumnal equinox—celebrated in China as the mooncake festival and Native American Day in the U.S.—is a culinary delight in Korea when Chuseok is observed, a harvest feast festival merged with ancestry remembrances. It is also the celebration of...
Posted On Sep 30 2015 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

SSHS and NMC

I did the rounds, performed the necessary oblations, genuflected to the idols and icons of the systems, and quietly waited for the word to come down if our application to teach at PSS was seriously entertained. Not a word. We graciously attributed the missed communications on...
Posted On Sep 28 2015 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Mooncakes and Native Americans

August 15 in the Chinese calendar is the mid-Autumn mooncake festival (zhongqiu jie, a family reunion time). Do not ask how that differs from the solar calendar since China combines both the lunar (29.5 days lunar cycle) and the solar (365.24 days a year). But the lunar one...
Posted On Sep 25 2015 06:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara
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