The Coyote Bides His Time A Native American Trickster and a Born Survivor By Dr. Lorin Swinehart An excited yipping and yapping, like a pack of fox terriers fighting over a carcass, echoed across the meadow as I rested beneath a towering evergreen, savoring my morning mug of lapsangsouchong tea. Moments later, four large […]
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Mango By Bill Frayer Peeling a mango is simple.Doing that one thing, nowIs simple, and it is good. So as I peel a mangoI anticipateIts sweet tartnessAnd feel my salivaPrepare itselfFor the first bite.And I am fullyWith this mangoIn this moment. I am not thinkingAbout my healthOr about problemsWith my familyOr about my next
I Whistled and the Sky Danced By Lillian Norma Gillingham Bernice woke up tingling with excitement. Today was the day her older brother was going to teach her how to whistle. Ever since she could remember, Bernice followed her brother everywhere. At first he didn’t mind but now that he and his friends were
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Editor’s Page By Christy Wiseman Definitions and Delusions – Am I a Closet Liberal? In our politically charged climate, it is tempting to annoint one’s point of view with a glorious definition of what the associated side represents. It makes choosing a side comfortable, easy and very self satisfying. If being a liberal on the
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Kokio: A Novel Based on the Life of Neill James (2016) By Stephen Preston Banks274 pp. Tellectual Press, Valley, WAReviewed By Karl Homann The arrival of Neill James in Ajijic in 1943, after suffering two near-fatal accidents, one while descending from the summit of Popocatepetl and the other on the “newlyborn” Volcán de Paricutin
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson In addition to the myriad conventions, systems and treatments that are used by competitive bridge players the world over there are a number of gambits which, though occurring relatively seldom, can bring big rewards if recognized and implemented at the table. One such ploy is The Morton’s
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Guadalajara’s blue collar Midtown What I refer to as “Midtown Guadalajara” runs east from Chalpultepec to 8 De Julio, and south from Calle Independencia to Libertad. Avenida Vallarta passes directly through its heart, but much of what’s worth seeing and doing in this eclectic neighborhood happens on its less-traveled
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Fate By Janice Kimball The American, blond hair now streaked with white, moved to the highlands of central Mexico to escape old hopes and expectations. She bought a small villa in Chapala and a battered pickup whose bed she filled with plants and flowers which she brought home to make a magnificent garden. Her
Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Global Values? Not So Fast… What is happening in Western Democracies? What, exactly is going on? The UK voted for Brexit. A major political party in the US has nominated Donald Trump for president. David Duke and white supremacists are back in the news. Right-wing nationalist parties in
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