I began this blog two years ago in the Philippines. I don’t think that I’d ever seen a blog before I made this with my friend Dominic’s assistance. I had read of weblogs in magazines, so I knew that some are online journals. I wanted family, friends and church members in the U.S. to be able to read of what Dominic and I were doing in and near Baguio City. So we began writing on Teachthepoor.org. Months later, after abandoning the dream of tutoring and teaching, I renamed this Reachthepoor.org.

After some months I renamed this Yankees abroad. But I’m no longer abroad, and that name sounds like a 1940s movie title, so this blog will soon be renamed tenpesos.com. That name has no particular meaning or significance to me. It just seemed succinct, and it was available.  Within a couple of years, after graduating, I suppose, I will rename the blog again to reflect what I am doing or where I’m living then.

The weather here is beautiful. Northern schools’ Spring breaks have begun, and F.S.U. is breaking its semester.  Panama City Beach is beginning to see many college students from many states joining the Snowbirds who’ve been here. Panama City Beach Police, Bay County deputy sheriffs and State Troopers are patrolling streets and little scooters are starting to swarm.

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. – Haitian proverb

Alltell’s website reads, on the front page, “great deals on BlackBerry’s!” Why is an apostrophe there?

God alone is great. – Jean-Baptiste Massillon

That which is written can be bequeathed; that which is only heard can be forgotten.  – Ethiopian proverb

Are you a Yankee?

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.

To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.

To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

– attributed to  E. B. White

The river may be wide, but it can be crossed. – proverb from Cote d’Ivoire

I encourage you to visit online The World War One Foundation, which strives  to memorialize those who fought in the “War to End All Wars.”

“The mission of the Foundation is to advocate and raise funds for the re-dedication of the DC War Memorial as a national World War I memorial, dedicated to all those Americans who served in the Great War.”