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Thanksgiving

We had a really nice Thanksgiving.  It started when I was asked to give the “Thanksgiving Message” at the annual Thanksgiving Ball put on by the American Chamber of Commerce Foundation (a charitable organization).  They asked me, I expect, because neither the Ambassador nor the Deputy Chief of Mission were available.  Still, it seemed very […]

Aliciya is a Model!!!

We had been waiting since July for Florsheim to start using the photos of Aliciya they took. It happened while we were gone. When we got back, Myrna, our maid, told us that she had seen Aliciya’s picture on a billboard on EDSA, the most important street in Manila. Of course, we had to go […]