Relationships in the islands are seasonal. People come and go out of my life like seasons. Ironically, there is only one season in the islands… hot with a high of 1000 degrees. My friends always stay as friends, but the frequency of time spent with the friends comes and...

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We are teaching a 10-day English class to friends on our island. I guess I shouldn’t say “we.” I’m just along for the ride. Some Americans living in the UAE are mixing vacation and volunteerism. We had our first class tonight and the students and teachers had a great...

Braden had a birthday. He is now 13. Yes, that means I am now really old. Strange how that works. I now have a teenager and a tenager. He had a pretty good day, got to eat on the special plate, got some money and some gifts and had...

___A_OPEN___a href=”http://www.bobbycox.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0958.jpg”___Today was island cleanup day. My first thought was, “I will pick up what I threw down on the ground.” Ha ha, that was nothing. I don’t throw trash on the ground. However, my neighbors can say the same. Litter is a huge problem on our island. Angie...

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Some of our friends put an island trip together and several families from our island went to Kuda Bandos island for few hours. Kuda Bandos is a small uninhabited island used for day trips and picnics. It was a great trip. We had about 30 people from our island...

the second half of “You’re In My Brain” by Skillet. Anybody else like that song?...

Never thought I would be so happy to see rain. It has been so stinking hot here. It has looked like rain for the last few days, but it seems that it just goes around us and the sun bursts through on this equatorial land mass and cooks us....