Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: As the long-time reviewer of LLT plays under the byline “Front Row Center” I must respond to the anonymous letter criticizing the recent production of Betrayal (December 2014, page 84). It is my practice to see every play twice – first I go to the preview on the
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Up On The Rooftop By Carol L. Bowman The chocolate boxer began barking as the thunder rumbled to a crescendo. A silent flash of light streaked through the sky and the barking increased. Then a deluge poured, without sympathy for the frantic pacer on our Mexican neighbor’s out-building rooftop. His barks turned garbled, mixed
About Apparitions Revered Here and Around the World By Nancy Greenheart Cultural Researcher In an article published in the October 2014 issue of El Ojo Del Lago, I mentioned that in many cultures people receive manifestations of beings imbued with core-reaching penetrating love. Here in Mexico and in many countries around the world, these
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Backwater Vagabonds By James Marthai “The new road should be near completion by now,” read the Mexican travel brochure, describing the lovely little town of Barra de Esperanza, north of Manzanillo on the tropical Pacific coast. This is our return trip to Manzanillo on the “new road near completion.” Near completion of survey would
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Just For Today… By Kathy Koches Just for today, I m going to put aside my fears, worries, cares and woes. Just for today, I am going to look at the beauty, joy and wonder that life has given me. Just for today I am going rejoice in a friend’s good news, celebrate a
He Is Who? By Pia Krause Aitken A frighteningly scruffy man emerged from a road-dirty but relatively new convertible and ambled into the front desk, way too confident, I thought, for someone who looked like that. At slightly more than 17, I had the pompous title of Assistant Manager at the new fancy motor
Bad Boy By Sunny Glessner Sara flounced out of the grocery store. Joe had just said “Hi, Sara,” and she’d been speechless. How had he even recognized her without her face or hair done? Of course she wanted him to recognize her. She was interested in him, but he hadn’t asked her out after
“Compassionate Conservatism” By Fred Mittag There is much about being an American of which I’m proud and there is much about which I’m ashamed. The country was founded on some theoretical concepts of democracy, coming from great minds, but it was always a work in progress, including the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, the
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Good Hope By Harriet Hart What prompted me to choose South Africa as a destination? Perhaps it was those geography quizzes at Carlton School, a one room schoolhouse on the Canadian prairie. Every morning the teacher rolled down a map of the world provided by the Neilson Chocolate bar company, and some lucky student
Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Juan De Dios – “Juanito” At Home…. Now 11 years old; has been with niños incapacitados since just after birth —diagnosed by in-utero ultrasound with hydrocephalus—this used to be called “water on the brain,” but actually is not water but spinal fluid that is supposed to
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