Category: Life
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A Jaunt into Philosophy 2: The Issue of God and Religion
Here’s the second post in a short series in philosophy. The first one on Freedom vs Determinism can be found HERE! This one is on God and Religion. Philosophers differ profoundly on the issue of God and religion. Many see the world in pure scientific eyes. There is nothing except that which can be…
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A Jaunt into Philosophy 1: Freedom vs. Determinism
I’m no philosopher. But I like to think of the issue and give my two-cents every once in a while. I worked through some of the major philosophical issues a while back by writing a series of short essays. Nothing groundbreaking here, but I thought I’d share my understanding and thoughts on them. Here’s the…
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Great Little Things About Malaysia: 1
I wrote two recent posts about little things in America that I particularly enjoyed this past trip: parking lots & free water in restaurants. As I returned to Malaysia a couple days ago, I immediately was hit with an example of a great little thing about Malaysia: car mechanics. I’ve never had a great car…
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Great Little Things about America: Part II
I’m winding down my 5 weeks in America, getting ready to head back to Malaysia. I’ve come to appreciate certain little things about America which I didn’t experience in my 8 day vacation in Europe or at my residence in Malaysia. The first post was about the abundance of parking lots. View post here.This one…
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Take me back to bologna and ketchup
Every once in a while, it’s good to go back to your childhood and remember what it was like. For me, that’s bologna and ketchup. Perhaps that doesn’t sound too appealing, but bologna played a big part of my childhood. It’s cheap. It’s meat. (Does it ever go bad?) It’s the most unoffensive meat available,…
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Cool Things About America #1
I’ve been enjoying my home country for the past month. Gorging in way too much food and freezing my tail off in this supposed “summer” weather. Why they even bother to sell swimwear in the frigid regions of the northeast I’ll never know. It’s mid-July and it was only 57 degrees in Friendship, NY at…
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Propaganda Borders: N. Korea & S. Korea vs. Ohio & Pennsylvania
Along the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula is a well fortified DMZ, which separates the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the Republic of South Korean. Since the cease fire in 1954, the two brotherly states have been starring down the barrels of each other’s weapons, watching and waiting for the slightest flinch of…
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My Dad’s Super Cool Military Photo
My Dad celebrated his 83rd birthday this week. He showed me some of his old military photos. He was stationed in Germany, fighting the Cold War in 1953-1954. Look at this cool photo. I couldn’t help but share: Who are all those people? From left to right: 3 Star general McAuliffe, Commanding General 7th Army…
Author Mark W Sasse 