News - Plain English

It was my privilege to lead the Guam Business Magazine Trade Mission to Palau the week of Sept. 28, also supported by the Journal with coverage in this edition. 

It’s hard to believe, but WhatsApp has been with us since 2009. These days, you can use it not only to text somebody, but to send all manner of attachments, and most importantly to phone long distance.

We arrived in London in what was described as a heatwave and were there to witness the hottest day so far in the UK the next day. The temperatures in England reached 37.7 degrees Centigrade/99 degrees. This wasn’t the first heatwave this year and England has now dealt with its fourth one.

When I first met Veena Sachdev at a party, I was intrigued. An interior designer — here in Guam? 
Since I left my parents’ house, I have lived in more than 10 houses.

As I write this column, a number of things come to mind.

If you are a business and you or your team deal with clients, you’ll know how important customer service is.

In the early 1990s I traveled to London to begin furnishing our new apartment there. The furniture was delivered and I realized that it might be safer to get help to stand up the heavy bookcase that needed to go in the study, rather than try and do that myself.