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Sex In The Supermarket By Bernie Suttle   You want to get poked?” I asked Betty Pruett, a checker at Market Basket. She turned toward me from the register, smiled and said, “Not right now.” I had the melon poker in my hand. It was used to assure buyers the watermelons were ready to eat. […]

TOMMIE—An Unforgettable Man By Jim Rambo   We were both young, ambitious lawyers and were court appointed to represent a killer, a black, wiry man whose eyes were vacant and who never smiled. And he hadn’t been smiling the year before, 1983, when he senselessly murdered a priest, who had his collar on, in a

Man Denatured? By John Hicks   Ancient man, bless him, made temporary shelters or used natural ones.  Modern man makes his own essentially permanent one. That’s clear and simple.  But modern man differs from his grandfather in the extent of his “shelters.”  Matter of fact, I don’t think modern man lives in “shelters.”  The purposes

Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: It is that time of year again: graduation, departing students, the end of the school year and the heat, the beginning of the rainy season. It is when I usually take inventory. My list this year includes a long overdue thank you. I am grateful for your support as

Speeding Past Shangri-La By Mark Boyer   We all have our stories of regret, and this is one of my deepest regrets that has changed the way I think and the choices I now make. One summer my friend Ken Schunk and I travelled to a remote area of China near the Tibet border in

Magnificent Mexico By Mildred Boyd Cities of the Gods   They are empty and silent now; pale spectres of cities that teemed with life and seethed with color. Once priestly processions moved in solemn splendor across those wide plazas and climbed the steep stairways to make their bloody offerings to the gods while hushed crowds

From Our Webboard WWW.WEB.CHAPALA.COM QUESTION:What is the main reason you retired to Lakeside?   pappysmarket To experience a slower and simpler way of life, less dependent on a vehicle. Ajijic very much resembled the small town that I was born in and which we moved away from when I was 13. But that was in