Raoul Pascual started doing cartoons for his office mates in his old job as a designer in a marketing/ publishing company in Burbank California. After leaving the company, he decided to keep in touch with his friends by sending them original cartoons based on some joke emails he received.
Raoul’s Two Cents: Home Camping I’ve always wished my Dad or my grand Dad would have spent more time with me when I was growing up. I wish I had more talks with my own kids. I kept on postponing until the opportunity ceased to present itself. I realize now that one has to be deliberate about these teachable moments. …
Raoul’s Two Cents: May 28, 2021 Out of This World News flash! Aliens are real! Yup! Those nerds wearing aluminum foil hats have finally been vindicated. The presence of the elephant in the room of the US Defense Department has been officially recognized. If you are not convinced that UFOs are real, you’re way behind in the news. This is …
Raoul’s Two Cents: May 21, 2021 Stand By Me I was the new kid in high school and I desperately needed a friend. Three other teenagers — (not their real names) Teddy the Playboy, Nervous Bob and Lazy Lenny befriended me. They saw me eating my lunch and they asked me to hang out with them. Well, you know the …
Raoul’s Two Cents: May 14, 2021 A Special Ordinary Day There was something in the air last Friday when I drove up to the Post Office. I couldn’t put my finger on it but it was there. There were people walking about … a little more than normal. Cars … there were relatively more cars than normal. The restaurants … …
Raoul’s 2 cents A Parking Spot [This article is a little religious so skip to the jokes if it makes you nervous please.] There’s a joke about a woman looking for a parking spot during the frenzy of a Christmas Shopping. It’s so crowded that she makes a desperate deal with God: “I promise to give up my bad habits, …
Raoul’s 2 Cents: Turn It On! [This article is a little religious so skip to the jokes if it makes you nervous please.] Some look at the world today and it can be really doom and gloom. It’s COVID, it’s politics, it’s the environment. I was just on a zoom session with some friends in the Philippines where COVID is …
The woman was moved by the fiery preaching of their parish priest.
There was a young man who was drafted into the Army to fight in Vietnam. He spent several years in San Francisco after his discharge before returning to visit his family in the Bronx.
There was a man whose name was Odd. He wasn't sure why his parents had given him that name but it had caused him problems all his life and he never liked it.
As it often happens, a familiar passage in the Bible gave me profound new understanding. The first letter of the apostle John teaches about authentic love. And this kind of love (even for one's enemies) comes from Jesus Christ.
