New Neighbors The new neighbors out back, quiet and peaceful, have two kids. From my window I spy on them as they roam the yard, unused. A castor jungle competes with starry flowering lantana, honey to the butterflies, and the dumping ground of trash. They pick around and munch on this and that. Then […]
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Death and The Maiden By Ariel DorfmanDirected by LB Hamilton Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman wrote this play in 1990, shortly after Chile’s return to democracy after the brutal rule of General Augusto Pinochet. As President, Pinochet was in effect a dictator and during his rule it is estimated
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Women and Recovery “Intensified patrol on both sides of the Mexican/USA border make it harder for cartels to get their drugs over, so more narcotics are left on the streets of Mexico, for local consumers.” stated Marcela Lopez Cabrera, Director of Monte Fenix Clinic
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Cleaning House and Reminiscing By Beverly Denton In Honor of Letters Written on Paper I know many people who, when moving to a new country in retirement, have garage sales, toss papers into the trash, and plead with family members to please take their valuable vases, china, stemware, and antique chairs. We strip down
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SKROMSOST* By Norah Valentine(*Skromnost. The Czech word even sounds like what it is: Modesty.) I looked at a flat one day. Its graceful lines had been altered by makeshift rebuilding with materials that had been scavenged in leaner days. I thought: no. I peered doubtfully into a small parlor where there was a wooden
From The Outside Looking InLooking Out From The Inside By Gary Fish A spouse, partner or child is lost to death, The one left behind tries to understand. Time “they” say will heal, Get back to work, Go out and find a companion. Advice, advice, Concern, concern. Who are “they”? “They” are friends. “They”
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Focus on Art – The Art of Social Comment By Rob Mohr “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”—Vincent van Gogh Lakeside artist Isidro Xilonzóchitl brings hidden visions, liberated dreams, and myths rooted in human spirituality, to life through the use of luminous color and dynamic forms that force an opening in
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To My Sons My Three ValentinesWritten long ago andnow shared with you. I would make of youStrong fiberSo that when lifeTests youAs surely it willYou will hold fast To the truths thatAre within youThe truths thatMake you whatYou are Different from All othersBecause of prioritiesYou have setFor your livesAnd your souls Flexibility in theFabricOf that
Grandma’s Bedroom By Sandra Olson Grandma lived in Winnemucca, Nevada, in an old frame house, with a screened front porch, a coal cellar and a shed in the back. The house sat on an unpaved road a few blocks from the railroad yard, beyond the Chinese cemetery up on the hill and across the
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