Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Fleas are athletic prolific vampires The adult dog flea is a wingless insect with a set of powerful hind legs that enables it to jump nine inches straight up or five feet sideways. Like vampires, adult fleas feed only on blood. The flea spends the majority of its life
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Child of the MonthBy Rich Petersen Alexa Cárdenas Reyes This beautiful one-year old little girl is Alexa Cárdenas Reyes. Alexa is the first born (and only) child of Alexandra y Carlos who live in Chapala. You can see in the photo that Alexa’s right eye seems to be missing. Actually, she was born with
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My Carry-On Bag By Loretta Downs We are the best of friends. It began with a blind date that led to a period of ambivalence about the nature of our relationship before we decided to become “just friends.” We have grown closer as we’ve grown older, and after 45 years, we know each other
Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Path of No More Learning” “Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.” These words were written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in Modern Buddhism: The Path of
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Stupidity Is Contagious By Neil McKinnon (Ed. Note: Neil is the author of Tuckahoe Slidebottle (Thistledown Press) which was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award and the Howard O’Hagen Short Fiction Award) Lowbrow movies, books and television programs are harming our brains. A recent study at the University of Linz in Austria
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King Part Four “The Church has always maintained the Historic Teaching that deliberate acts of contraceptives are always gravely sinful, if done with full knowledge and deliberate consent.” Quote from Robert Brom, Bishop of San Diego. Wikipedia Press Release stated. ‘ The 1973 Roe v Wade decision opened the door to
Chapala Malecons By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarello www.antoniorambles.com antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Something about the sight of a distant horizon anchored by an expanse of blue water makes a walk along the shoreline like no other walk. For most folks such a view is the stuff of which vacation memories are made. For anyone living along
LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com April 2013 PAST EVENTS March 10 – 11 there were performances by Mac Morison at one of the most beautiful properties you might see. AsMac and Carol Bedord sang, we were swept back in time
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Life Among The Animals —We Love some, we eat some, fear some Dr. Lorin Swinehart One sultry summer day when I was two, I accompanied my father on a jaunt across my grandfather’s pasture, where our fox terrier Bobby could be heard barking excitedly. We found him face to face with a large ground
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View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com A Visit to Don Otavio For those who want to try a tiny adventure to the south shore, make a pilgrimage to the Hacienda San Martin, only a couple of miles south of Jocotepec. This private hacienda is reputedly the location of Sybille Bedford’s classic 1953
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