A Christmas Carol and Charles Dickens By An Anonymous Contributor Most people aren’t aware that Christmas as we know it was almost extinct. For a period from 1645 to 1660, the Puritans successfully passed laws that literally banned Christmas in England. Mince pies, mistletoe, holly, and other Christmas staples were outlawed along with Christmas […]
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The Tragedy Of Raoul Wallenberg: Lost Hero of the Holocaust By Dr. Lorin Swinehart On January 17, 1945, Raoul Wallenberg, a young Swedish diplomat who had risked his life to save the lives of thousands of Jewish men, women and children, disappeared into the murk of the Soviet Gulag and was never heard
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Public Assistance with Dignity? Leave it to the Swiss. Activists in Switzerland recently organized a referendum vote to decide on what seems to be a rather drastic alternative to public assistance programs: guarantee everyone an income. It’s a simple proposal. Every adult citizen would receive
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Emily’s Last Stand By Dorothy Blanchard When her classroom emptied, Emily removed the letter from her purse and read it again. Venom rose from the stationary like noxious gas as she read, in part: “… forcing our dear children to adopt the language and customs of that -(Emily cringed) foreigner.” Not surprisingly, the letter
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt It’s cold out there! I am moving to the beach! OK, I’m threatening to move to the beach. I hear it is warm there. 2013-2014 has turned into the longest and coldest rainy season I have spent in Mexico. Yes! It is good for the Lake!
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Texans And Poles—At the Battle of Monte Casino By Phyllis Ewing The WWII Battle of Monte Cassino involved Allied forces against the heavily fortified German Winter Line. Four major battles took place over a four month period. The Texas 36th division of the U.S. 5th Army, under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark,
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The Automat By Patricia Hemingway On a narrow side street in downtown Manhattan, inside one of many unobtrusive doorways, the lights were still on in Malik’s Automat Cafe. The surrounding offices were dark and inside them the elevators sat at ground level, empty and quiet. The security guard who lounged behind a desk in
The Ways You Walk Beside Me Friend, partner, lover, companion, spouse These are the ways we walk together. Forgotten fears, Foot steps behind us dissipating in the laughter of our growing old together, capable of having too much fun as my friend in the garden we long since planted with the soil of our
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com Tepehua Centro Comunitario’s vision is to educate and create opportunity for people to get OFF the mountain to find that opportunity. The location of Tepehua is high above the area of Chapala. Its view and location is a million dollar one. (Disregard the poverty for one moment.)
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Impossible Dream” Miguel de Cervantes (1564-1616) suffered unceasing failure throughout his life, yet in the only work of Cervantes that is still read, Don Quixote de la Mancha, written in his senior years while in prison, Cervantes created a character with such a high
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