When she finished, she left the machine without pressing “No, I do not want another transaction,” and started walking back to her car in the parking lot. Of course this meant she’d left her ATM card in the machine since that last button press would mean the machine would eject the card.… Read More Don’t Forget Your ATM Cards, Please
This country offers sinful delights at every turn: lasciviousness in its entertainment media, pornography in its liquor stores, vice in its gambling meccas, even savagery in its social networking sites. Sure, there are opportunities to grow and possibilities to be fruitful, but then there are also wicked snares at every turn.… Read More America is Ur – a Desert of Purification
1. Noontime in San Leandro several months back. I am walking past the Safeway grocery on my lunch hour after having come from the bank to deposit a check. I am rushing and look straight ahead, but something catches my eye and I glance rightwards. A disheveled woman not in her right mind is standing… Read More Surreal in the City
A few months ago, I attended two nights of traffic school, four hours each night, in reparation for driving 10 miles above the speed limit in a small town called Dorris, CA just past the border from Oregon. Lo and behold, we got a teacher who not only facilitated discussion, but was also funny as… Read More 12 Things You Need to Know When You Drive in California
On Monday Morning, December 1, 2008, I was walking to the Hayward BART train station after coming from the 7 AM morning mass. I had headphones on, and was listening to Catholic broadcaster Teresa Tomeo’s radio show on EWTN (via Immaculate Heart Radio 1260 AM) where she was talking with another author about how children… Read More I Was Mugged. And Earned a Dollar
Reading about my youngest sister’s unemployment predicament in Toronto set me thinking about how I got through the fog of joblessness back when I was a fresh-faced new immigrant to the States, and what I learned in that search. Here then are my five tips for new immigrant jobseekers.… Read More Five Tips for New Immigrant Jobseekers
A thought hit me today in the break room at work. Companies here in the States all mostly have break rooms with free coffee and tea and some type of snack food, whether healthy (fruits and health bars in my current job) or less healthy (Doritos and Costco muffins in my past job). I remember… Read More Free Tea Makes Me Happy
Subtitle: Further Reflections on DMV Driving Test #4 On April 28, 2008, the Gospel reading at the morning mass was John 15:26—16:4a, which had Jesus promising to send us the Advocate, the Spirit of truth, to guide us and empower us on our journey towards holiness and heaven. I remembered this a few hours later… Read More This Driving Test Is The Lord’s
Last July 4 was Independence Day, a national holiday, and therefore the perfect opportunity to go out gallivanting in a place we hadn’t visited before. Thus after much internet research (via Google Maps), numerous printouts of maps and directions (via Mapquest), a hastily prepared snack pack made of nacho chips, dip, soda and a whole… Read More Half Moon Bay’s Deadly V Beach
I actually went into the Flood Building next to the Powell cable car, and enjoyed the diorama display of its history. I had a pretty good job interview yesterday. I think I made a good impression, even wore a long-sleeved shirt and tie (no jacket though because of the extreme heat), and talked confidently. So… Read More Going To Market
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