The Irish Soldiers Of Mexico By Dr. Michael Hogan Reviewed by Jim Tuck At long last—a book that treats the tragic story of Irish soldiers who deserted to the enemy during the Mexican-American War as neither hagiographic soap opera (brave Catholic soldiers aiding an embattled Catholic nation) nor a Manifest Destiny morality play (traitors
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Garlic — A Culinary Cure-All? By Ralph F. Graves Being harassed by vampires, witches or evil spirits? Try chewing on a clove of garlic. Laid low with a bacterial infection? Garlic just might provide relief. Bothered by hypertension, high cholesterol, or coronary problems? Even modern scientists conclude that garlic can be beneficial. In Mexico, early
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News About The Garden Guild By Nancy M. Daniel Publicity Chairman The Lakeside Garden Guild presented its 2014 Floral Design Show, Songs in Flowers, at an invitation-only afternoon event. Held at a private Lakeside hacienda, the show again challenged Guild members to create exciting and memorable designs with flowers. Each fall the Guild members are
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “Attention! Attention!” In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, Island, the protagonist Will Farnaby, after being shipwrecked onto the island of Pal, home to a Utopian community, falls into a sound sleep only to be awakened a few hours later by a Mynah bird calling out, in a
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Is Everything Only Physical? By Lois Schroft Although his more than fifty published books and thousands of lectures continue to influence new generations of readers interested in the worlds of metaphysics and science, his name remains obscure. Thousands of people know of the worldwide Waldorf School system, Biodynamic Farming, Camphill Communities and Anthroposophy medicinal
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Sinderella Created by Dave McIntosh Directed by Paul Kloegman This was a fun Christmas entertainment, loosely based on the British pantomime tradition. From the outset, Paul Kloegman as “Buttons” involved the audience and told us what to do. Participate! Boo and hiss whenever the evil “Baroness Hard-Up” (sneeringly
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BELIEFS – Self Evolvement Series By Anna Elena Berlin Certified Professional Coach, Experience of Life Researcher. For most of my life I believed that “I”, the conscious part of my mind that I identify as me, was the only one in control of my actions and every part of my life. I discovered that not
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Batteries, Milk And Eggs By Ron Knight Mexico is a hell of a country for Type A Personalities. If you think you’re gonna be in the driver’s seat, you quickly learn to ride in the back seat of the car. And if that’s not far enough, you pack yourself up to take a
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The Time Has Come To Rein In Big Business By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” H.G. Wells Corporate behemoths have conquered the United States of America and much of the rest of the world. They
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Lake Chapala Writers Conference By Herbert W. Piekow A Time for Writing and Inspiration Some people think that writing is easy. The assumption is we can read, therefore we can write, besides we graduated from school. However, good writing is much more than putting your name at the top and filling the screen or
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