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The Quinata family has done it again. For the third year ina row, they’ve turned the common area in the St. Fidelis Friary into a magicalwinter wonderland, complete with snow-covered mountains, skiers, ice skaters,old-fashioned shops, Christmas trees, twinkling lights, a midnight sky, Christmascarolers, Santa Claus, and of course,

With the advent of digital cameras and cell phones, all of us are now amateur photographers. We’re always snapping away at people, places and events. The difference between what happens when we press that shutter button and when a professional gets the shot is that we just take pictures; true photographers capture the soul of a moment. In the span of just nine days,

“All or nothing will leave us with nothing.”      That’s what Senator B.J. Cruz told listeners on K57’s Breakfast Show last Friday morning, in reaction to the news that the Guam war claims bill had been removed from the U.S. defense spending bill. The bill would compensate descendants of anyone who was killed on Guam during the Japanese occupation of the island,

At the ripe middle age of 50, I am studying Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Again. I actually read Hamlet back in high school, some 30 years ago, when it was just some stupid play where people talked funny and everyone died in the end. Three decades the wiser, as a master’s degree student at the University of Guam, I can now appreciate the brilliance of William Shakespeare’s nuances,

“No.”My daughter wanted to bring home apuppy that had followed her and her middle school cross country teammates backfrom their run last Friday. “Come on, mom. We’ll take it toG.A.I.N. tomorrow.”“I said no. Just leave it here.”She got into the back of the vanwith the little black thing with its swollen, worm-filled belly and its littletail wagging away.