The Huffington Post has discovered Cat Cafes at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/lolcats-cat-cafes-in-tokyo_n_824620.html with a pictorial of a few photos from a Cat Cafe in Tokyo. As many of you know, my family and I are fans of Cat Cafes and we even run a page on facebook dedicated to the beasties with hundreds of photos and videos...
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My daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, performs the solo piano version of her original composition MERMAID’S LAMENT . . . you may remember her earlier video of Kaye and two of her friends performing a trio version of the same song, Kaye’s original composition for flute, piano, and cello on 9 June 2011 at Tamkang...
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My daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, and two of her friends perform MERMAID’S LAMENT, Kaye’s original composition for flute, piano, and cello on 9 June 2011 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where Kaye is a student in the music specialty program, majoring in Composition and Piano. If you would like to watch...
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So . . . let me get this straight . . . there are parents out there . . . and evidently not just parents but kids too . . . who are demanding that corporal punishment remain in Texas schools? Of course, there are also folks on the other side of the coin...
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Traffic was bad so we stopped off for bowling in Tamshui. Here we see Kaye and Lorraine have very different styles.
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Kaye enjoying a tasty treat.
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As reported in the New York Times, multiracialty is on the rise in the United States with one in seven marriages now to folks of different ethnic or racial groups. Currently, universities are seeing enrollment by the highest number of racially mixed students they have ever experienced and visibility of such folks and their...
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Recently in the US there’s been a bit of controversy over Amy Chua‘s new book on the superiority of the “Chinese” mother in which she catalogs her approach to parenting and fostering achievement and academic excellence within her kids with a whole slew of things her kids can NEVER do such as: attend a...
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Well, yesterday, Lorraine and I went over to our friend Michael’s to play a game of D&D with his wife Beatrice and our friend Tom who is visiting Taiwan for a week or two. Long ago – twelve years ago, actually – Tom was our DM for a Dungeons and Dragons game we had...
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Been on a very long hiatus from Dungeons and Dragons . . . it’s seriously been years since we’ve picked up polyhedral dice and killed something monstrous . . . we have been getting our roleplaying fixes with live action in the ol’ muder mystery party, LARP, and interactive drama freeform mode . ....
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No, the building is not exploding . . . that’s the fireworks celebration for the New Year here in Taiwan at Taipei 101. Happy New Year folks! - Brian, Lorraine, and Kaye
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My daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips improvising at piano . . . she’s at home just letting her fingers move . . . fellow hypnotists may note that her improvisation is very much based upon a musical ideomotor movement of her fingers which take on a life of their own as she plays . ....
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Here we go . . . this one’s SPECIAL! Here is a video and some images of my daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, as she performs MAIDEN FLIGHT OF THE BLUE WHITE DRAGON, her original piano composition on 14 November 2010 at Wang LaoShr’s Annual Student Recital in Taipei, Taiwan. Kaye was invited to come...
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Here are some more video framegrabs of my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips and her as yet unnamed band performing at a music festival invitational for high school rock bands. The band, while rough around the edges, was names one of the top bands performing at the festival. Kaye plays drums for the band which...
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Some of you may not know that my daughter Kaye is now also in a band and plays drums . . . yes, drums. Oddly enough, not keyboards even though she is a double major in Piano and Composition but drums, an instrument she has no formal training in and one in which she...
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