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After discovering that the FDA allows MSG to be labeled under many different names, especially if the substance is 98% or less MSG, I starte...

Last year, I was feeling kind of relieved to be getting away from a place where Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is often added to the food, espec...

I've been familiar with Philippians 4:8 from the time I was a small child. I thought I did pretty well at not thinking negatively until...

I didn’t question it the first time I was told to talk to adults at a fifth grade level. That was in the advanced speech class that I to...

I just finished a great book: You Can Read Anyone by David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. In this book, Lieberman devotes several chapters to the top...

When I read this in Frogs, 405 B.C., I absolutely howled. It might loose some of it's humor here because I pulled the passage out of the...

After living in the Philippines for three years and in Canada the year before that, I was shocked to hear the accent that people have in the...

I saw a tiny piece of cake being sold individually. It was regular cake, not cheese cake, and had the deluxe sounding name Velvet Creme Cak...

It seems as if 2008 has been two or three years in one for my husband and myself. We began the year finishing a couple of c...

When I arrived, my old man puddy tat was missing for the second time, but he showed up on the back porch the Sunday after I came. I noticed...

Dad, Grandma, and I spent the day with Aunt Katy and Uncle Doug on a really nice beach that we had all to ourselves. Then we went back to ...

a bald eagle

dad on on air mattress and me paddling around an on an inflatable boat

My good friend in this picture was in the area for two days this week (she doesn't live around here anymore), and invited me and some of...

I'm home. My Dad took this just after I arrived. The flight took around 20 hours, which was shorter than when I went because my layove...

This is the part of the Grand Palace where the "royal residences" are.

These were my favorite restroom signs in Bangkok! :-)

They often sell these cockroaches or whatever they are in the same place along the sidewalk were they sell fruit (Bangkok). I don't eat ...

Our travel to Cambodia was full of adventures. First, we took a big, comfortable, air-conditioned bus from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet and sta...

Aranyaprathet is the border town in Thailand where we stayed the night before crossing into Cambodia. HEre we are on a tuk tuk going to a ...

Poipet is the border town which people usually go through when coming by land from Thailand. It's a fairly large city. In fact, the po...

Battambang was one of our first stops when we rode the bus from Poi pet to Phnom Penh. It might be smaller then Poi pet, but it looks bette...

We saw many houses on stilts. Our friends told us that in some places, when the heavy rains come and it floods, people untie their houses an...

This is the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It has four (I think) buildings. It was a school that was converted into one...

We went to Friend's restaurant with our friends and a group of Singaporeans. It is the third and final training ground for young Cambodi...

We visited a Cambodian church in Phnom Pehn. The sermon was about an hour long, but I didn't understand any of it because it is in their...

We went to Swenson's in the second of the only two malls in Cambodia for B's birthday.

B trying to feed a monkey in a park in Phnom Pehn, Camboida. The monkey became angry for some reason and went after him.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Dragon fruit. I bought 6 for only 20 Bhat from a street vendor. They taste similar to kiwi fruit.