Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson It is generally accepted among bridge players that one should not deceive one’s partner. However, from time to time situations arise that just beg to be taken advantage of, where the risk of fooling partner is overridden by the potential gain if the opponents are similarly misled. […]
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC No Regrets It’s been said not to take life too seriously because no one gets out of it alive. It might also be said that none of us get through it without at least a few regrets. Taking life seriously enough while we still have
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Welcome To The Unknown By Rosemary Dineen Reviewed by Patricia Hemingway Rosemary’s age, by her own admission, is 79, and the book’s 83 poems have all been written during the past two years of her life spent in Ajijic. The poems are primarily written in-the-moment. She reflects on a mosquito landing on her arm,
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GROWING UP OKIE—And Trying to Kick It By Bob Branson (These scenes come from a larger work in which a boy grows up in Nickson, a middle-sized Oklahoma town. Boys were pressured to play football, basketball, baseball, do the field events in track, hunt, fish, and work. You have to learn a lot of skills
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Travel Plans I’m planning a trip to the USA and dreading every moment of it. Oh sure, there are family members I look forward to seeing, and a special occasion my husband is really looking forward to. But I am not looking forward to the whole process of leaving
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Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: To Paul Jackson, I returned on March 31 from traveling in Australia and New Zealand during February and March. Consequently, I had not read your silly response to my factual comments on your column until April 1, appropriately. Certainly you should know gobblydegook, gibberish, and jiggerypokery since that
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Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Tadeo de Jesús Barajas Aceves Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago is pleased to present this sweet 4-month old little guy, Tadeo de Jesús Barajas Aceves. Tadeo is the youngest of three children and lives with his parents in Chapala. His mother, María Liliana (shown here) is
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Opera On The Bus By Gary Donaldson There is a certain serenity one feels from time to time when the universe opens itself up to you and shows you all of its possibilities. There are minute cracks in the seemingly perfect order of things. God and the universe are perpetual and harmonious bodies in
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hessartthedogguy@yahoo.com No Secrets A while back I received a phone call from a lady who had a dog management question relative to transporting two dogs north. We discussed her questions and when we finished she said her friend had said, “If you talk to Art could you
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Firearms Reveal Lives Of Two Literary Giants By Dr. Lorin Swinehart John Steinbeck Ernest Hemingway In his recent biography, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost, Paul Hendrickson reports an incident that occurred in 1934, while his subject was fishing with Archibald MacLeish. When the famous poet failed to hook a
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