An Outside Curve By Michael McGrath(Republished by Request)Reply to Jim Tuck’s Bleeding Heart Liberal Article Whoa back, Friar Tuck! It seems to me that in your last “Inside Straight” (Ojo, Nov. 2009), you are advocating the burning of another “witch.” We more or less gave that up as a country when we adopted the […]
Stars By Kathy Koches I lie on my bed, gazing out the window at the night sky, and I am filled with wonder at the beauty spread out before me. The twinkling stars seem to kiss the mountains and sparkle off the waters of Lake Chapala. I feel as if I can reach out
Intercultural Communication By Tracy Novinger (Ed. Note: What follows is an excerpt from Ms. Novinger’s excellent book. It was published by the University of Texas Press, sells for $16.95 and can be purchased from amazon.com) Communication between the United States and Mexico will always be difficult but never impossible. The successful U.S. corporation Corning
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Fiction By John Ward, himself a fictionswazijohn@icloud.com Fiction. Life is a fiction. Not even a well-written fiction. Who authored this drivel? Some say God. Some say Nature. Still others say the Thetans that sprang from L. Ron’s dementia and greed. I’d like to know the truth but the likelihood of truly discovering the truth
Order In The Court? By Jim Rambo (Ed. Note: This is the second in a short series of columns about the author’s experiences over his long career as a prosecutor up in the “old country.”) THE JUDGE SUMS UP During jury selection in a murder trial before Judge Carl Goldstein, the prospective jurors were
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There Are Always Consequences By David Moss The phone rang a few minutes ago. My friend said he was canceling our lunch together. “It was just too cold,” he told me, “to go out.” We made the usual global warming jokes and wondered who had had the bright idea to hold an international meeting
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FAMOUS (Or Infamous) REJECTION NOTICES (Published as something of a gift to Lakeside’s many talented writers, to help keep them from getting discouraged.) 1. Stephen King Mr. King received dozens of rejections for his first novel, Carrie; he kept them tidily nailed to a spike under a timber in his bedroom. One of the
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THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRESS—Self-Evolvement Series By Anna Elena BerlinCPC, Experience of Life Researcher A University of Wisconsin (Univ. of WI) at Madison study conducted in 2012 by Keller, Litzelman, and Wisk examines the relationship between participants’ stress levels, the perception that stress affects their health, and health and mortality outcomes in a nationally
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MY OP-ED! (Sort of…) By Maggie Van Ostrand Maya Doomsday(First published in 2010) I’m sick and tired of hearing disagreements between the U.S.A. and Mexico. First, there’s the emigration thing with fences and coyotes and blustering politicians; second is the drug thing where the U.S. blames Mexico for their own addictive population; and now
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Animal Tales By Russell S. Dowdrussell@pdisearch.com There I was in my office, feet-up, watching TV when I glanced out the doorway and into the hallway mirror where I saw the Cat peering under the ottoman, intently. This can only mean one thing. A snake! That’s my conclusion. So I jumped up and rightly so.
