...is leaving Manila on May 3 and I can use the passport Uncle Antonio got me. If only there was another way to cross the sea, I do get very seasick. I plan to sail through the Suez Canal to Naples, ok so maybe Spain wouldn't be my first European country but I as the boat is stopping by I might as well look around. I hear some of My friends from Ateneo are in Barcelona, I can take the train...

The young child is dependent on adults for many things, but the most important is a sense of being cared for. Moments of physical closeness, a smile, a kiss and a hug to express the love you feel for...should be agreed upon by both parents, presented to the child and enforced firmly and cheerfully. They give your child a sense of security in her environment and in her relationships with others.

A  growing child is depended on adults for many things. She needs the physical closeness  like a smile, a kiss, a hug  to express the love that the nearer adults feel for the child. Such signs of affection...from everyone else. A sense of how he is unique is important to the growth of the child. He needs to feel special in some way and to have this quality recognized by others, especially his parents.

...this might have had something to do with Venice being the most northern, or least Mediterranean, of the cities visited. A very, very handsome German Shephard drowsing on a flight of steps in Naples. Naples being, well, the most southern and thus Mediterranean (read: warm) city I'd visited. When its owner realised that I was taking its picture, he asked the dog to get up and pose for me. All...

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This sculptural decoration on the staircase of the Church of Sant'Agostino Maggiore o alla Zecca in Naples brings several associations to my mind - "three musketteers 350 years later", or, taking into consideration the book, on which the skulls are positioned, and the green sprouts - "dear friend, theory is all grey, and the golden tree of life is green". It probably dates back to the second half...

Nice lead paragraph from front page story in yesterday's Naples Daily News : The Ave Maria School of Law has received a final blessing from the American Bar Association for its move to Southwest Florida and will relocate to Collier County from Ann Arbor, Mich., on July 1. The dreamer of this dream is Ken Monaghan, the Michigan pizza king (he is the founder of Domino's) and one-time owner of the...

...on the beach in Sperlonga, with an umbrella over my head napping in dry heat. The town of Sperlonga is  on the western coast, just two hours south of Rome by boat or train.  Half way to Naples, Sperlonga sits on a grotto, looking out into the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.  You wont find many foreigners in this town, as most people who vacation here are other Italians.  Up high on the bluff...

...capital of the United States, to promote his economic stimulus package.   The New York Times ran a front page story yesterday, describing the woes of Lee County, immediately to the north of Naples. And, it is not a pretty picture, as I indicated in a post a few days ago. Here is a link to the Times story.  www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/us/08lehigh.html   (One ancillary aspect treated in the...

...attached to the other end of the leash. So, about a half-dozen times a day, either Marg or I need to put Kuma on the leash, grab a couple of plastic poop bags, and accompany Kuma into the great Naples outdoors.  The first and last trips of each day allow her to relieve her bladder.  We try to make at least three of the outings walks around Regency Reserve Circle, three-quarters of a mile around...