Senescent Choices By John Thomas Dodds Life it seems is what I wake up with. All of a sudden it is today. Sure, I have a few aches and pains. Daily, my body expands and flattens, my feet grow wider as I shrink. Not going gently into the night bits and pieces fall apart, […]
Road Trip Bread Crumbs By Teri Saya I often wonder what it would have been like to be a teenager or young adult here in Jalisco. How would the following story compare to a group of Mexican Jovenes? Here is a fictional story based on some of the fun and care-free road trips I
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Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Mariana Belen was born December 24, 2004 and lives with her parents and two siblings. She was referred to Niños Incapacitados by DID Jocotopec and accepted into the program in March 2017. In December 2016, Mariana was experiencing excruciating pains and rushed to the hospital. After undergoing an
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Do I Have to Like Everybody? No. Of course not. That would be very unlikely, probably impossible. But I think it’s beside the point. I am a Unitarian Universalist. Of course I’ve heard all the Unitarian jokes centering around the idea that we don’t know what we believe.
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Focus on Art By Rob MohrA Review of The Long Journey Home*By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez “Journalism can never be silent … it must speak, and speak immediately, while claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” —Albert Camus Every man and woman has a dream for their life, an
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The Battle Of Charlottesville By Mark Boyer They tried to manipulate their message and divert our attention to others. They said Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, Native Americans, and LGBTQs were bad. They said our heroes weren’t really heroes. They said the poor and the helpless were cheaters and a burden. They said THEIR religion was
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Missing Mexico As I sit in my hotel room in Minnesota, I miss my Mexico so very much. Gone are the sweet brown faces that greet me each morning. I walk outside my door here, and there are no vecinos to wave to, to greet, to stop and
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Christian, The Lion By Robert James Taylor Christian was born on August 12th 1969, in a zoo in Devon, one of three cubs, and he was acquired by the zoological dept. at Harrods in London. Two Australian ex-pats, namely John Rendall and Ace Bourke, noticed the three-month old cub and decided to purchase him with
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Cat Burglars By Bernie Suttle “Dean Higgins has one but he says it doesn’t work all the way,” I told my fifth-grade friends. Kyle, the Alfalfa look-alike, who always wore cheap, scuffed, cowboy boots to remind us all that he had once ridden a horse, chipped in, “Nothing he has works all the way.”
Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson No matter how long one has been playing bridge there is always something new to learn and there is no better way than watching experts in high level competition. The website Bridge Base Online frequently broadcasts tournaments from all over the world free of charge and this
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