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Travels to Italy: Part 2
By Steve on September 29, 2010
The main duration of our time in Italy is staying at a little farmhouse renovated for guests about 45 minutes outside of Florence. We had chosen not to include a GPS unit in our Avis…
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Travels to Italy: Part 1
By Steve on September 28, 2010
Although we didn’t need to leave for the airport until 8:00 AM…we were up at 5. Why? Because after many delays, we were finally off to our vacation in Italy. The European trip began being…
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Restore the Sanity 2010
By Steve on September 18, 2010
I try not to blog too often on Jon Stewart and the Daily Show…else I would hardly blog about anything else…but when he announced his “Restore the Sanity” rally for October 30 in Washington DC,…
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The Incredible (Disappearing) Video Store
By Steve on September 12, 2010
I did something today I haven’t done for a long time. I went to the video store and got a membership! Wow! Renting movies from a store. How “5 minutes ago is that?” The reason…
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More Thoughts on God’s Grace
By Steve on September 8, 2010
The Grace of God has become new to me… all over again. That’s one (of many) things I love about God. Just when you think you reached the top step of understanding in an area,…
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Movie Review: The Expendables
By Steve on September 2, 2010
Got to go see The Expendables this week. Even before I saw it here in Hong Kong, the box office success in U.S. seemed to indicate I wasn’t the first Reagan America weaned, over 40…
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Do You Have a Flag?
By Steve on August 30, 2010
I recently wrote a few posts back about the developing problem of territorial claims in the South China Sea. Well, it just keeps getting more interesting and for those of you outside the Asia Pacific…
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Conviction & Compassion: or What to do with my Democrat, Muslim, and Gay friends
By Steve on August 28, 2010
I recently had dinner with a new friend here in Hong Kong. We had been talking about different cuisines and I had been bemoaning the fact that my favorite Lebanese restaurant had closed. When I…
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Hong Kong Tragedy in the Philippines
By Steve on August 26, 2010
On Monday evening 21 Hong Kong tourists were taken hostage in the Philippines by a disgruntled former policeman hoping to get his job back. An 11 hour standoff with a Filipino SWAT team left 8…
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Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary
By Steve on August 25, 2010
Hard to believe its been 20 years since Twin Peaks first aired. Twenty years since half America stood around water coolers discussing the question du jour; “Who Killed Laura Palmer?” Twin Peaks, for the uninitiated,…