Yummy! By Sydney GayResident Chef, International Cities of Friendship Yummy Fresh Apple Sauce Apple peel contains essential vitamins and minerals. Remove pesticide residue by dissolving ¼ cup baking soda or vinegar into four cups of water. Soak fruit minimum 15 minutes, quarter apples into blender with a tad of fresh water, add honey or […]
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There’s a Band Around My Heart By Kathy Koches There’s a band around my heart. It is like an elastic band, stretching and allowing my heart to expand so there is more room; More room for love, more compassion, Adding and growing every day. There’s a band around my heart. It is like hard
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com March 2019 OPEN CIRCLE Sunday morning finds Lakeside residents at the Lake Chapala Society and Open Circle, a forum on a variety of stimulating topics. A social hour with coffee and snacks at 10 am is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion at 10:30. March
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A Not- So – Tranquil Day In Mexico By Margie Keane Our not so tranquil day started with a conversation with my husband Tom: “Let’s go to Mazamitla when John and Lynn come to visit,” I said, “this book says it’s situated in the middle of a pine forest and nearby there’s a great
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When Insults Had Class! These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to four letter words, not to mention waving middle fingers. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some
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The Mexican Smile Buenos dias! Buenas tardes! Like an opening in the forest, A clearing filtering light, A window to beyond, Invitation to pause, A moment of connection, The passing traveler’s smile surprises with its intimacy, Offer of friendliness, a gift, That in the giving, recognizes and affirms A moment of “I – Thou”.
Ballykelly By Seamus O’Hagan When I was a boy of some nine or ten years, I had the good fortune to reside in a small Irish village called Ballykelly. It was a hamlet of three hundred people and included two churches, a primary school, and a small shop that mostly sold three-day old newspapers
Hola to Ajijic! By Scott Richards The last plane my wife and I are planning on flying for a very long time, finally landed in Guadalajara from Istanbul three weeks ago delivering us to this enchanting pueblo of Ajijic. Two years, thirty-six flights and almost 100,000 air miles, we find ourselves home. A couple
Her Ashes In My Hands By Susa Silvermarie I stand here in the roar of the sea and the cold blow of autumn with her ashes in my hands. Her ashes, hers, in a carved box. How can she be in a box. I stand here on the bluff at dusk, under a sky
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GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Advertising I am fearful that U.S. television programming may have resulted in the death of a few million of my brain cells. This conclusion is based on the fact that I am now watching and listening to commercials, and I don’t understand them. We have all spent hours
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