Yummy! By Sydney GayResident Chef, International Cities of Friendship Calabaza Season Is Now The history of Calabaza can be traced over 7,500 years from Mexico to the Iran, it’s a winter squash loaded with Vitamin A, postassium, antioxidents and fiber, somewhat bland when baked, so spices like cumin and curry are needed to enhance […]
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It’s Funny About Writing… From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. – Winston Churchill * I wrote a few children’s books. Not on purpose. – Steven Wright If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and
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The Crusoe Conversion By Carol L. Bowman We looked beneath the dock for a canoe, kayak or any water-worthy craft, ready for an emergency escape, but found none. Panic of the coming darkness welled up within me. The boat’s captain pulled the cord and the sound of the 12-foot panga’s outboard motor bounced off the waves
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Calcutta Karma By Mark Sconce My friend Richard and I finished our business in Calcutta and decided to take the train home to Nepal where both of us were engaged as Peace Corps Volunteers. Well into our second year, we were seasoned enough to get along both in Hindi and Nepali. Adventurous by nature,
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com January is a new canvass waiting for a masterpiece to unfold. Every year that excitement of “something new any day I will know right away…soon as it shows!” (West Side Story). Sometimes we create our own happenings, sometimes we wait. The Tepehua Community Center
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For Kathy When the black rider comes with iron fistbetween the stones of dark and lightto stop your breath and blind your sightand take you, bound, into that night:you are not easy in your rest.Not easy seeking out the lightand why this dark’s so hard and brightand nothing left to be confessed:you give us
Unnatural By Kelly Hayes-RaittHayesRaitt@aol.com Last week, a friend of mine lost her son. “Lost” is such a ridiculous word. He died. “Lost” implies she somehow misplaced him in the deli section in Wal-Mart, when, in fact, he will never be found. I don’t fully understand this loss, this unspeakable, irrevocable loss. While I’ve been
Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.”—Epictetus, Greek philosopher Back in the mid-fifties, in the little town in which I grew up in northern Ohio, I read, between novels about Indians in southern Ohio and in the
Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt By the time you read this, 2018 will finally be over. I hope 2019 will bring much hope and joy to the Mexican people. We were looking towards family visitors in January. But after reading advisories from the US State Department that listed Jalisco and Guadalajara as too
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How To Buy A Chicken By Rachel McMillen The man I married was a man of many skills. A chemical engineer by profession, he was capable of turning his talents to any job that needed doing, all with equal success. As an example, when we decided we wanted a larger boat than the twenty-six
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