As with marbles, so we also gambled with rubber bands (lastics), washers (tarkas) used by carpenters to nail G.I. roofing, or gogo (biay), the fruit of a vine used for rinsing the hair, round and shiny, in the shape of a round kidney, or bittaog, a fruit of trees growing in the plaza, round in […]
Thanksgiving Day – November 24, 1994
Hello everyone, Chris here. This journal entry from Thanksgiving in 1994 was among Lolo’s papers, so I thought it would be nice to see it again now in 2016. Today is Thanksgiving Day. I am on duty as Courtesy Officer (Security Guard) in the LANDINGS APARTMENTS at the corner of Sligh Avenue and Habana Streets […]