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....

___A_OPEN___a href=”http://www.bobbycox.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/iphone_kindle.jpg”___nI absolutely love the Kindle for iPhone. Books at my fingertips in minutes. I can search all of Amazon.com and find books I want to read and boom, there they are on my phone just waiting to be read. I love it because living in the islands, books...

Video:nnnnIn 2008, Braden memorized the Prologue to the Declaration of Independence. I recorded it on video as proof. I asked him the other day (in 2010) if he remembered any of it, he said no....

nnIn a couple of weeks I will be traveling to Dubai. We have already begun making our list of things we need to get while in Dubai. You can imagine what is on top of the list… Starbucks. Yes, we will bring it back with us to brew in at...