We Are Family

We Are Family



Some very early Homo sapiens emerged from Africa in what is called the experimental waves as early as 210,000 years ago. Nonetheless, the main exodus period for Homo sapiens dates back 70,000 years. Since all humans are from Africa, there is only one race, the human race.

Nearly a half-century ago, my doctoral thesis at McCormick Theological Seminary related to the local church functioning as an extended family. Regardless of one’s ethnicity within a local congregation, I wrote about the theological justification for the members of that church being a family.

Interestingly, years later, that insight has risen to a much higher plateau. Having traveled to many places throughout the world, my perspective has grown far more expansive than a local congregation. I can trace my seeing the light to my two trips to Myanmar/Burma. During winter break from teaching in 2013, I spent a month traveling in Myanmar’s tourist triangle.

When I returned to the States, I had a routine appointment with Dr. Marchand, my cardiologist at the time. He checked my heart and said that I was fine and added that he would see me in six months unless I had any questions. I did have a question...a haunting question. Why was I so wired about my time spent in Myanmar? He looked at me and said, “You have seen the light”. Essentially, he wanted me to determine why that single country had radically affected me far more than the several dozen other countries that I had visited over the past half-century.

On my first trip to Myanmar, I had a private tour. A driver would pick me up at my hotel. He and the tour guide sat in the front seat, and I had the backseat to myself. Moh Moh was my tour guide near Inle Lake. One day, she said that we had to stop at her home to pick up my intermarry after leaving Inle Lake. She then added that her 9-year-old daughter was home on winter break. After playing Scrabble with Ti Ti, I realized that I had met my granddaughter, along with her two younger sisters and her parents. We are family.



What If What If The Basic Question of Life 01/09/26
Happy Birthday, A Ngal Lay Happy Birthday, A Ngal Lay And Many More 01/05/26
My Bucket List My Bucket List Finding Joy 12/31/25
What Did You Do on Christmas? What Did You Do on Christmas? I Watched Song Sung Blue. 12/26/25
Ti Ti and I Are Dreamers Ti Ti and I Are Dreamers Dreaming About Canada 12/10/25
Dreaming Dreams Dreaming Dreams Dashed Dreams 12/01/25
Clone of Ti Ti Clone of Ti Ti The Little One 11/28/25
The Reason for Writing The Reason for Writing To Draw Attention to Lies 11/26/25
Now, I Get It Now, I Get It In My Twilight Years 11/03/25
Ti Ti and Her Smile... Ti Ti and Her Smile... What a Gift 10/24/25
The Issue of Paying Homage The Issue of Paying Homage It's a Two-way Street 10/17/25
The Haunting Question The Haunting Question Do You See You? 09/17/25
When Facing Failure When Facing Failure What Can You Do? 09/08/25
Legends Often Morph into Facts Linking Up with My Family During Thadingyut 10/21/24
Discovering a Mentor Discovering a Mentor In a Field of Dreams 09/13/24
We Are All Teachers We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach 08/28/24
Become a Bo Bo Gyi Become a Bo Bo Gyi It's About Giving to Get. 08/26/24
The Snowman vs Allen The Snowman vs Allen How To Change the World 08/23/24
Replying to Ti Ti’s Request Replying to Ti Ti’s Request For a Photo of PaPa Al 08/09/24
You Know that You Are Getting Old You Know that You Are Getting Old When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans 08/05/24
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know It is Snow’s Birthday! 07/22/24
A Parable about Geese A Parable about Geese Waddle or Fly 07/10/24
How to Become Rich How to Become Rich Without Any Much Money 07/01/24
How Will We Be Remembered How Will We Be Remembered Another Either / Or Essay 06/28/24
I’m Leading Death Again I’m Leading Death Again On My Dancefloor of Life 06/10/24
A Poem for Ti Ti A Poem for Ti Ti Who is Now Twenty 06/02/24
What’s It All About, Alfie What’s It All About, Alfie According to Longfellow 05/31/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts How Much Land Does a Man Need? An Edited Tolstoy 05/10/24
The Flying Dutchman The Flying Dutchman Then and Now 05/03/24
Field of Dreams Field of Dreams A Haunting Return 04/24/24
Immortal Beloved Immortal Beloved Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine 04/19/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts What I Discovered When I Wasn’t Looking 04/08/24
We are made of star-stuff “We Are Made of Star-Stuff,” But We Don’t Realize It. 03/27/24
My Hill of Beans Paradox My Hill of Beans Paradox Created by the James Webb Space Telescope 01/26/24
Snow and Fatty Snow and Fatty Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps 01/19/24
What’s It All About... What’s It All About... The Paradox of Life 12/29/23
Legends Often Morph into Facts PaPa Al’s Reply To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education 12/15/23
Legends Often Morph into Facts If I Were Q I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire 11/08/23
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas 11/06/23
The Reason for Being The Reason for Being An Either/Or Situation 11/03/23
Breath of Fresh Air Breath of Fresh Air From My Web Administrator 10/20/23
Me and My Echocardiogram Me and My Echocardiogram Beyond a Diagnosis 10/18/23
Ti Ti, the Artist Ti Ti, the Artist The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar 10/02/23
My Second Shot My Second Shot Or the First Insurrection 09/22/23
My World of Xanadu My World of Xanadu Another Personal Parallel Essay 09/20/23
Tyson’s Two Thoughts Ti Ti’s Surprising Email To Her Grandfather 09/18/23
Tyson’s Two Thoughts Tyson’s Two Thoughts Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock 09/15/23
The Importance of Happenstance The Importance of Happenstance For Heavenly Clauses 09/08/23
Trump Is Better Than Jesus Trump Is Better Than Jesus So He Says 09/06/23
Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels 09/04/23
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal Holding Hands with Neal Katyal What My Teacher Taught Me 08/21/23
Haunting Photos Haunting Photos Then and Now 08/09/23
Oppie and Me Oppie and Me The Similarities are Striking 07/24/23
The Synchronicity of My Mentors The Synchronicity of My Mentors Bobby and Don Quixote 07/19/23
The Lady and Bobby Pick Mentors Carefully The Lady and Bobby 06/02/23
A Suggestion of a Mentor A Suggestion of a Mentor A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article 04/07/23
NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies So What? 03/08/23
Music Explains Me Music Explains Me Music Drives Me 03/03/23
Happy Birthday Moh Moh Happy Birthday Moh Moh And Many More 02/27/23
Jabbering Parrots Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett 02/22/23
Learning from Two Astrophysicists Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World 02/10/23
Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems 02/06/23
My Quest for Eldorado My Quest for Eldorado In Three Parts 01/16/23
Than Than Myanmar’s van Gogh 01/11/23
Grasping Reality Grasping Reality I Can’t Explain It 01/09/23
What Drove My Father and Drives Me? What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain 12/30/22
I Wish that I Had Asked My Father I Wish that I Had Asked My Father About WWII 12/19/22
I Could Hear the Silence I Could Hear the Silence While I Raged 12/12/22
Problems are Assets Problems are Assets Seize the Problems 12/09/22
My Twilight Hauntings... My Twilight Hauntings... About Immortality 11/25/22
Transparency Revisited Transparency Revisited While Down on the Farm 10/21/22
Growing Up Without Transparency Growing Up Without Transparency And Finally Discovering It 10/14/22
Facing Storms of Life Facing Storms of Life Another Either/Or Situation 10/07/22
Seeing Things More Clearly On My Yellow Brick Road 08/22/22
A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment 08/22/22
Hoosier’s Neighbor? The Ultimate Question 08/17/22
Trilogy of Diseases How Are You Going to Address the Trilogy? 08/12/22
An Important Teaching Moment Joe and I Are Twins 08/10/22
A Lesson About Life… Don’t Fear Death… 07/24/22
Happy Birthday Snow You Are 13 07/22/22
Another Mantra of Mine Be a Storyteller 07/8/22
Bridge On/Over the River Kwai Then and Now 07/1/22
Trouble in River City Come Hell or High Water 06/24/22
Lionel, Amazon’s Guardian Angel Fended Off UPS 06/22/22
“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men….” Reset and Carry On 05/13/22
The Battle of the Alamo… Past, Present, and Future 05/11/22
I Love Teaching… Here in Myanmar or Anywhere 05/09/22
Ti Ti, the Driven An Exceptional Young Lady 05/04/22
My Commencement Address... To the World 05/02/22
Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking 04/29/22
Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie? 04/24/22
Acclimating to the New World In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point 04/20/22
I’m An American Oligarch…. Of Sorts 04/15/22
Building Castles in the Sky Pushing the Limits of Possibility 04/13/22
Ti Ti’s Yogi-ism “It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.” 04/06/22
I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep 04/04/22
Seeing the Future At Least Three Times 03/30/22
My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About 03/28/22
Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why? 03/21/22
Children and War Ukraine and Myanmar 03/18/22
Ti Ti, the Teacher Of Her Classmates and Me 03/16/22
Two Views of the Ides of March One for Caesar and One for My Family 03/14/22
What We Can Learn from Yapping Dogs And Yapping Leaders 03/11/22
The Helter-Skelter Mindset1 Locally and Globally 03/09/22
My Great-Granddaughter A Younger Version of My Granddaughters 03/07/22
If Everything Around You Seems Dark… Look Again. You May Be the Light. 02/26/22
History Is Repetitious Then and Now 02/21/22
My Personality Quirks… I Have Several 02/16/22
The Tale of My Foot Years Ago and Today 02/11/22
More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy 02/07/22
Parallels Between Myanmar and America Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World 02/04/22
My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby 02/02/22
Diversity Is the Answer But What Is the Question? 01/31/22
When I Become a Billionaire… A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage 01/26/22
Two Countries Living in One World 01/24/22
My Dreamland During My Operation 01/19/22
Coming to America A Dream of Many 01/17/22
“Better To Reign in Hell… Than Serve in heaven.” 01/12/22
A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being 12/31/21
Buffalo Soldiers Then and Now 12/29/21
Christmas: Past, Present, and Future 12/24/21
The Deep State Is Watching Me But Why? 12/13/21
Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother 12/06/21
I Love My Family With Some Caveats 12/03/21
“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment 11/26/21
I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits 11/19/21
My Extended Family You Can See Her Painting. 11/15/21
I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty 11/12/21
Ginger and the Mask and Shot Mandates A Canine Teaching Moment 11/05/21
From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity 11/03/21
A New World Order The World from Campbell’s Perspective 11/01/21
A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life 10/27/21
Paying Homage… To Me 10/25/21
The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change 10/22/21
Having a Purposeful Life Another Sequel About Dreaming 10/20/21
Societal Dreaming Delayed but Not Dashed 10/18/21
Miss Independent Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter 10/15/21
A Dream Delayed Or a Dream Dashed 10/13/21
We Need to Learn from History… Not Rewrite It. 10/11/21
My Takeaway From the Great Chicago Fire 10/08/21
What Ginger’s Dances Taught Me Despite My Dances 10/06/21
Ti Ti and Education Why Is Education Critical? 10/04/21
What’s All This About Women? The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly 10/01/21
I Successfully Survived an Electromyography At Least for the Time Being 09/29/21
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…. “Ride, Boldly Ride” 09/27/21
Parallels with Ti Ti A Part of Which Are Genetic 09/24/21
A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together 09/20/21
My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay 09/15/21
When I Become President of the World… Things Are Going to Change 09/10/21
The Pros and Cons… Of Replicating Our Parents 09/06/21
“I’m Doing the Dance” The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem 09/03/21
Snow’s Poem About Her New Normal 09/01/21
Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? 08/30/21
What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. 08/18/21
Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh For Her Indomitable Will 08/11/21
Learning from Dancing Starlings… A Great Learning Moment for Us 08/09/21
It Is Time To Write Poetry Another Teaching Event 08/06/21
Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does 08/01/21
What To Do When Your World Is Out of Control What I Learned from My Family 07/30/21
Ginger Doing the Dance And An Important Takeaway 07/28/21
A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment 07/26/21
We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life? 07/23/21
Happy Birthday, Snow Time To Remember 07/21/21
How To Achieve Being Venerated, Wise, and Great In Two Steps 07/16/21
A Ngal Lay My Great-Granddaughter 07/14/21
Poets Both Past and Present Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay 07/09/21
Resurrection I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger 07/07/21
Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa 06/28/21
Scarface PaPa Al Isn’t My Nickname 06/25/21
More Apologies Expressed To My Physicians 06/21/21
One More Comment For Ti Ti As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road 06/11/21
The Little One, A Part of My Family 06/09/21
Than, a Great Artist The Art of Playing the Hand Dealt You 06/07/21
Set Set Yo And a Little Child 06/04/21
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday 06/02/21
Memorial Day 2021 It Is in Giving that We Get 05/31/21
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… 05/14/21
Learn and Become a Storyteller All You Need To Do Is To Travel 05/10/21
The History of Myanmar… Is Being Written Now 05/07/21
Three Take-Aways From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address 05/03/21
The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You? 04/30/21
A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom My Fourth La Danse Macabre 04/19/21
Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures 04/16/21
My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail 04/07/21
As Kierkegaard Said It Is Either/Or 04/05/21
I Live in Two WorldsI Have Benefited from One World 03/22/21
What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question 03/19/21
Meghan, Harry, and ArchieAddress Royal Racism 03/17/21
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life 03/03/21
What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain 03/01/21
Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road 01/29/21
Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams 01/27/21
Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti 01/22/21
The Gilgamesh EpicThen and Now 01/18/21
Purposeful LivesOn Steroids 01/13/21
Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself 01/08/21
A Teaching MomentWith Ti Ti 01/01/21
Today is Thanksgiving Day… Near Inle Lake 12/30/20
Kayla, Bananas Flambé and Party Time for Ginger A Happy Day for Ginger 12/28/20
When Opportunity KnocksCarpe Diem 12/18/20
Your Meaning of Being…What Is It? 12/14/20
This Is a Teaching MomentAbout America 12/07/20
Blue House Remodeled…With Drive and Determination 11/30/20
Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti 11/23/20
Problems Are Catalysts for ChangeBut It Is Up to You 11/18/20
Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World 11/09/20
It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes 11/02/20
The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit 10/21/20
Ti Ti Teaches a Myanmar MythTo Her Sister 10/19/20
Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! 10/16/20
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity 10/07/20
My Two Worlds…Affect My Life 10/05/20
This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al 09/30/20
Jainism or the JusticeThe Place of Women in the World 09/28/20
This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder 09/25/20
From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made 09/23/20
Masks Matter…To Some 09/16/20
Two PoemsBy Two Ladies 09/14/20
A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing 09/11/20
I Live in Two Worlds:One in the States and One in Myanmar 09/07/20
Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family 09/04/20
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming 08/07/20
Focusing My Stream of ConsciousnessBy Watching a Movie 08/05/20
A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger 07/31/20
Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way 07/27/20
Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate 07/24/20
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” 07/20/20
The Brighter Side of My LifeDue to a Serendipitous Moment 07/15/20
A Tribute to FattyThe Girl with Those Eyes 07/10/20
A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar 07/08/20
A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady 07/06/20
I Dream Things That Never Were…And Say Way Not” 07/03/20
“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children 07/01/20
The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar 06/24/20
Living in Two Worlds…Part 2The Utopian Time 06/17/20
Living in Two WorldsPart 1 06/15/20
An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin' 06/05/20
Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers 06/01/20
Living in the New NormalOur New World Order 05/29/20
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The Use of DrugsDonnie, Aldie, and Dr. Goodspeed 05/27/20
It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family 05/20/20
The Elephant RideOver the Alps of Myanmar 05/11/20
Thinking Outside the Box of COVID-19And How You Will Benefit 05/08/20
Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family 05/06/20
Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady 04/29/20
Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location 04/27/20
The World is Dancing…Dancing with Death 04/24/20
Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons 04/22/20
Plague DoctorThen and Now 04/06/20
The Cave vs Reality...That is the Question. 03/20/20
A Teaching MomentFor Today and the Future 03/18/20
I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi 03/13/20
We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention 03/11/20
Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly 03/09/20
Circle of LifeDance On 03/06/20
“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life
(FLASH: The lost video sound is back)		 03/02/20
How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? 02/28/20
Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version 02/26/20
Moh Moh’s Interview of Me 02/24/20
Than’s Interview of Me 02/17/20
Snowaka Eppie 02/14/20
Happy Birthday Fatty…An Incarnation of Eppie 02/12/20
Than Tun OoArtist and Friend 02/10/20
The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series 01/29/20
Reflections on My LifeIn My Twilight Years 01/27/20
A Present-Day ParableWhich Can Be Understood 01/24/20
My Home Looks Like the Uffizi GalleryPart 1 of 4 Parts 01/22/20
It Is All About the Song…In the Days of Auld Lang Syne 01/20/20
My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song 01/17/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
Autotelic Vincent, Me, and Modafinil 09/27/19
Perspective What You See Is What You Get. 09/20/19
The Reason for the Hole in the Mountain This Isn’t Fake News 09/18/19
Plagiarism Sharpie-Gate 09/11/19
I Get That Ibn Battuta Loved Travel… But Why? 09/09/19
Modafinil— The Pill that Stopped My Meandering 09/04/19
Troll’s Tongue Or Troll’s Tail 09/02/19
My Yearning for Faraway Places… That I’ve Never Been or Will See Again 08/26/19
My Wonder Drug Modafinil 08/23/19
A Teaching Moment “Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails” 08/21/19
Either/Or…Part 2 I Can Live with a Dent 08/19/19
Starry, Starry Night…. What Do You See? 08/12/19
Learning Important Lessons About Life… From a U-2 Pilot 08/05/19
My Next Adventure: The Die is Cast 08/02/19
Balloons Over Bagan Also, a Time to Learn About the Past 07/12/19
I Did It My Way An Important Mentor 07/08/19
Music as a Unifying Force Also for Oneself 06/28/19
My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar 06/21/19
More Music More Defining 06/19/19
Family Who Is Your Family? 06/17/19
Another Déjà Vu In the Arts and Philosophy 06/07/19
Fatty…. My Karate Granddaughter 06/03/19
The Discovery in Tibet Possibly a Relative of Mine 05/08/19
Wanderlust Travel with No Regret 05/01/19
The Moving Finger Writes And the Writings Haunt Me 04/26/19
Several Things That I Need in Life And That’s When I Need You 04/24/19
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff 04/15/19
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page 04/12/19
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart 04/10/19
Scared! Seen as a Teaching Moment 04/08/19
It Is A Bridge Too Far Only If You Are a Coward 04/03/19
Coffin Bridge… Build What You Need 04/01/19
Vocation of An Old Man… Being a Bridge Builder 03/29/19
My Granddaughter… Knows How to Play Her Cards 03/27/19
I Will Rage, Rage… On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet 03/25/19
Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life 03/22/19
The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World 03/20/19
Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady 03/18/19
Dealing with the Reaper By Coming Alive and Living 03/13/19
Dreaming…. About My Moment in Time 03/11/19
One Moment in Time Carpe Diem 03/04/19
Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life 02/22/19
I Made a Mistake… Imagine That 02/13/19
Something to Dream About While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval 02/08/19
Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall 01/30/19
Making Your Mark The Issue is What Kind of Mark 01/25/19
Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse It Is a Good Sign for Me 01/18/19
The Wall Issue The True Value of a Wall 01/14/19
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. 01/11/19
Reflections 01/09/19
Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe 01/04/19
A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year 12/31/18
Christmas Gifts for Owen From People Around the World 12/28/18
Christmas Gifts for Jack From People Around the World 12/26/18
What Drives Me… My Himalayan Salt Lamps 12/19/18
It’s All About Family I Agree with John Lewis 12/17/18
Mini-Me and Dr. Evil… Then and Now 12/14/18
Reflections on The Magnificent Seven… 12/12/18
The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team 12/07/18
Would You Like Some Vintage Wine? I Would! 12/05/18
Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar 11/28/18
I Celebrate Two Thanksgiving Days… And This Is Why 11/22/18
"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy" 11/14/18
Building a Log Cabin You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother 11/12/18
Another Dinner and Date with Ginger On Election Night 11/09/18
Dreaming The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes 11/07/18
Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me 10/31/18
Happy Birthday to My Ginger Pooh Who is Two 10/29/18
Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev 08/06/18
It Is In Giving That We Get Being Like Bobby 08/03/18
Parallels Between the Spider Woman and Me Money 07/27/18
Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions 07/27/18
The Ripple Effect… “…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.” 07/23/18
Eppie… Then and Now 07/20/18
GiGi And Her Message to Betsy 07/18/18
Ti Ti’s Birthday Present On Her 14th Birthday 07/16/18
It’s All Begins with Making My Bed— Which Ginger Unmakes 07/13/18
The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex 07/11/18
If I fail, If I Fail… I Will While Daring Greatly 07/06/18
It Is a Matter of Either / Or… It Is a Matter of Either / Or… Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest. 07/04/18
Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al 06/20/18
Pa Lian Pa Lian Burmese Restaurant A Place Where I Learned a History Lesson 06/18/18
Ti Ti And Family Ti Ti and Her Family My Assistants in Myanmar 05/28/18
Moh Moh Bobby And Me Moh Moh, Bobby, and Me…. All Dreamers 04/30/18
bobbys-suggestion thumbnail Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems… A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar 04/06/18
teaching-goal thumbnail My Teaching Goal Teach in Taunggyi, Southern Shan State, Myanmar 03/30/18
marner-me thumbnail Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls 03/16/18
family thumbnail We Are Family Versus Racism 01/19/18