Strong Women By Kathy Koches “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt Yesterday I got an e-mail from my eldest granddaughter. She gave me news that was both sad and encouraging. She had left her abusive husband, after seven years […]
I Can See Russia From My Stateroom By Carol L. Bowman Part One As the Azamara Journey navigated through the Gulf of Finland, I stood on our veranda and fidgeted with binoculars. For the past six months, ‘Russia’ had spurred an onslaught of negative press in the US, but I felt a surge of positive
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Cop Or Otherwise? By Bernie Suttle “Get into the car, Son. Hitchhiking is against the law in Pasadena.” He leaned over and opened the passenger door. I had to get through the town to get to the freeway entrance and hoped to get a ride with a car headed for LA on that same route.
Hugh Hefner – A Personal Tribute By Rosemary Grayson AKA Rosemarie Hillcrest Miss October 1964 Playboy Magazine Si non oscillas, noli tintinare—Latin for “If you don’t swing, don’t ring.” Famously it’s engraved below the door knocker on Hugh Hefner’s original mansion. In the summer of 1963, I had just arrived on a Greyhound bus
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When Raven Placed The Stars In The Sky— stories of the Spirit World By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Raven occupies a fascinating niche in the stories of many peoples. The Tlingit people of Alaska, for instance, say that Raven placed the stars in the sky. In their stories, all the stars once belonged to a great
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren RipcordBy David Lindsay-AbaireDirected by Collette Clavadetscher Ripcord was commissioned by the Manhattan Theater Club, as an off-Broadway production designed to entertain an older subscription audience, and David Lindsay-Abaire delivered an “Odd Couple” comedy set in a retirement home. We can hear the comedic gears clanking as two old
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Raising The Roof At Tepehua! The Health Department of Jalisco visited the humble Community clinic on the Tepehua Hill, a surprise visit…catching us all unaware, close to two hundred women and children were being fed free brunch, the kids played in the yard, our
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How the Wealthy Gain From GOP Health Care Bill By Bengy Sarlin Republicans are once again bogged down in negotiations over health care, with moderates and conservatives pulling the Senate bill in different directions and polls showing the public overwhelmingly unhappy with their plans. But the key to understanding their struggles might not lie in health
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Thanksgiving In Little Rock By Gabrielle Blair “Quick! Here’s a turn-off. Take it!” We made a sharp turn off the highway. On this desolate road, we passed a wrecked, clap-board house. “Looks haunted,” I said with a sinking feeling. “Don’t make me go there! We’re liable to be killed,” was Alec’s response, remembering horror movies.
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Hearing Loss By Carlos Alonso, MDLicensed Audiologist10394596Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México In 1989, the report of the task force for National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (USA), determined the identification of biologic risk factors leading to the disability of age related hearing loss as a major research goal. At present, we know
