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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton The 7 Day Mental Diet   “The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.” These words, and some others that

Miss Stewart By Sandy Olsen   I don’t know why we chose to torment Miss Stewart. There was nothing unusual about her. She had ordinary features and figure and teacher-type clothes. Her face was ruddy and she wore black-rimmed glasses. Maybe we sensed her inexperience: that she was in her first semester of teaching eighth

Home Grown Arte By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com   The moment that I walk through the doorway of Colon #15 only a few blocks from San Cristóbal Zapotitlán’s central plaza, I realize that the Ostrich Ranch tour is about to be displaced as the high point of my trip. The house is unassuming, a

The Mango Orchard: The Extraordinary True Story of Family Lost and Found By Robin BayleyBook Review by James TiptonPublished by Random House UKISBN 978-1848092245Paper $14.95 USKindle $9.96 US   I suspect that more than a few local readers have fantasized about discovering a fascinating ancestor who lived in turbulent times and exotic places and then,

The End Of The World (written on December 21, 2012)   They say the world will end today – It’s not a day too soon, My problems just won’t go away, The market’s in a swoon – I just ran out of orange juice, My dogs are out of food, My bowels feel a little

Sacred Ground   The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11. www.16acresthemovie.com   Monday, March 4, 2013; Two benefit screenings 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.   All the proceeds from the benefit screenings will go to         Both screenings at Cinemas del

Remembering Chamberpot-Smythe The Late Poet Laureate of New  Guinea By John Ward   Bulworth Chamberpot-Smythe was born at a very early age in Leamington Spa, England in January 1862. His birth was serendipitous, almost miraculous. His father: Lord Cheltenham Chamberpot-Smythe, peer of the realm in 19th Century England, suffered an unhappy marriage to Bulworth’s mother,

Mexico Is Not For Sale! By Herbert W. Piekow   The recent Mexican Presidential election with claims of fraud and vote buying reminded me of an interesting, true event in the saga that occurred in the Roman Empire. The date was March 28, 193 when the Praetorian Guards offered the entire Roman Empire from the

The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.)   HARRY TRUMAN—THE MAN WHO SAVED WESTERN CIVILIZATION Frank Prothero Dr. Swinehart’s article on Harry Truman contains a fatal (and typical) error of fact. The United States did not go to war against the forces of North Korea. It was the United

An Open Letter To Sigmund Freud By Maggie Van Ostrand   Dear Dr. Freud, I heard you were a pretty smart guy, but even you couldn’t answer your own question: “What does a woman want?” Some say men and women should live on different continents and procreate by getting together once a year in a