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Enough By Mark Boyer   “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” – Lao Tzu Shark Tank is a reality TV show where people pitch their business ideas to an investor panel, and some proposals get funded and others don’t. I was particularly intrigued by a recent show where farmer Johnny […]

The Clutter In The Attic By Tom Nussbaum   As we age, our memories pile up like the stacks of magazines in the attic of the generations old family home.  The weight of the teetering towers of Saturday Evening Post, Life, TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Look, and Family Circle magazines could, over time, cause

Leverage By Bernie Suttle   Brian Richardson was a well liked solid B student who played on the MAD High School “B-Basketball” team while holding a part-time, after-school job. Brian had fallen hard for his classmate, Diane Nichols. He couldn’t explain it. She was in his English class and he couldn’t take his eyes off

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Reflections   Driving through the rainy streets early this morning, I watched Lakeside slowly come to life. The night-long rain followed by a small thunderstorm in the early morning brought a small land slide to the western edge of Chapala. I always marvel that we don’t have more of

John Wayne And I By Judy Dykstra-Brown   When the Union Pacific Railroad was finally completed on May 10, 1869, it was a cause for great celebration. In 1969 it was decided to have another huge ceremony honoring the 100th anniversary of the “Wedding of the Rails” in Utah.  To that end, two trains set

None Dare Call It Murder By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   Leroy Jackson had been missing for eight days back in September, 1993, when an anonymous tip was phoned in to the New Mexico State Police that a white van was parked along the Brazos Cliffs, near the town of Chama.  When officers arrived they found

Letters to the Editor   Dear sir: Your August editorial invites a response on many levels, In South Africa, my country of birth, where I grew up during the height of the Apartheid movement, it was the liberal leaders and the white women of the Black Sash movement who worked tirelessly and bravely to oppose

Crying Shame By Margaret Van Every   I was born, like the rest of us, letting loose the lusty first cries of life . . . only I kept crying long after most babies calm down because I had colic. I cried so much my parents were evicted from their apartment. The wisdom of the

Where Are My Car Keys? By Kay Davis   He had been gone for several days to join his family in celebration of his mother’s 88th birthday. The flight had kept him going one way or another for 14 hours without food or time between flight connections to buy a meal. In fact he had

Front Row Center By Michael Warren Season 52 at the Lakeside Little Theatre   Here we are again – the beginning of another season at LLT. This year there is a fundraiser Mark Twain, Uncensored opening on August 23, written by local writer Ed Tasca (who also stars.) For the first time in many years,