Contributions

Christmas recipe and memories

contributed by Louie Tacker
HELLO again, dear readers. Been a while, but I’m glad to be back here, giving my humble contribution to this blog.
With the onset of the holidays, my mind always gets busy remembering my childhood memories of Christmas. When I was a child, my mom would do all her rituals for Christmas. Now […]

Illegal immigration

Contributed by Louie Tacker - HELLO AGAIN FROM AMERICA.
Well, the hot issue here at present is immigration. First, let me tell you that this has been happening here for many, many years - with the Mexicans sneaking over the borders. Businessmen and farmers, particularly the huge growers have been exploiting them to work, pick vegetables and […]

Tasty fast shrimp recipe

(by Louie Tacker)  WITH the onset of summer also comes the onset of light thinking and light cooking quick easy kite meals to make the heat of summer more bearable.
I have in my book of recipes, this shrimp dish that I will be sharing with you which is light, tasty and easy to prepare though […]

Cosmetic or ‘Hollywood’ surgery

(contributed by Louie Tacker) WE jokingly call it ‘Hollywood Surgery’ here in the States only because it seems most average people like to emulate the stars in any way they can by undergoing plastic surgery and other procedures.
In the last year or so, I have been curious as to the many ads popping up in […]

Baking up Easter memories…

by Louie Tacker - As Easter is fast approaching, I sit back and my mind fills with thoughts of childhood.
Being raised Roman Catholic I realize that Easter is the most holy of all the Catholic Holy days. After all it is the culmination of Jesus’ life, the whole point of His being on this earth. […]

Music - playing it by ear

You are what you listen to
(Contributed by Adoreé Almira D. Jabanes)
 
WHEN I was a kid, my parents had some sort of ‘control’ over what music my sisters and I listened to. It’s not because they imposed rules or anything, but because we were usually busy playing to bother about songs other than London Bridge is Falling Down […]

Discrimination on male teachers

(Glad to note that this site is now becoming a venue for readers’ forum. The following is another worth-reading contribution from a reader.)
Why there are less male teachers
by Dr. Pelagio Vila, Jr.
THE classroom teacher is  perhaps the most underrated and most misinterpreted person in our nation’s labor force.
I say this because as  a classroom teacher […]

Sperm donation - legal but very risky

by Louie Tacker
One night I was watching a show here in America called ‘60 minutes’ - a news show that has been on the air for more than 30 years now. It is a much acclaimed award winning show, which is aired on C.B.S. network, and I believe, is broadcast world wide. I usually don’t […]

‘Internetting’

by Louie Tacker Recently I have been contributing to this site and I have been reflecting how wonderful it is that just with the click of a few buttons I can be read half way around the world. What a wonderful invention the web is. Oh sure, there are many downfalls, spams, predators, and other not […]

On Global Warming

by Louie Tacker
As a follow up to my last article entitled “Forest fires, natural calamities and balance of nature’, I would like to expand some on the whole issue of climate changes and the so called global warming.
 
We in America now enter our tornado season. A tornado, for those not familiar with the term, is […]