Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com In Defense of Slow It’s no secret that we are addicted to speed. Life proceeds at a fast pace today. Perhaps it comes from the old saw: Time is money. Since the early part of the twentieth century when Frederick Taylor came up with the term “scientific
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson They say that a good start is half the battle. Don’t tell that to this month’s West who made an excellent lead in the diagrammed hand played at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club, only for his side to come up short in the end. South
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The Girl In The Daisy Hat By Sandy Olson I wasn’t thinking about death the day we went to Carlos‘n Charlie’s bar in Ixtapa. I had plans with friends who also lived in Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, American expats in Zihuatanejo don’t have much interest in Ixtapa: the manicured lawns, the
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Alcohol is Not an Equal Opportunity Beverage While the majority of people drink alcohol at least occasionally, very few people know much about it or how it affects their bodies. With the holiday season soon upon us, this is a good time to look at
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Operation Compassion Ministries By Kay Davis Tom Music and Rich Bailey were concerned when they learned that children in San Antonio Tlayacapán were going to bed hungry. This was in January 2010, not the best way for these families to start the new year. So on February 1, 2010, the two men opened a
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Every now and then, living in Mexico leaves me with interesting logistical problems. One of the things that we sacrifice when we move to Mexico is the infrastructure of our more developed country of origin. We’ve all experienced problems here when our utilities stop functioning. Yet we’ve learned
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Grape Expectations By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Happy Thanksgiving What’s For Dinner? This is a great time of year to be thankful and most of us have a lot to be thankful for, including our friends and families, and living in Mexico with our wonderful climate. The pilgrims, in 1621, had very little
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hess artthedogguy@yahoo.com Law Of Resistance All of us are familiar with the Law of Gravity and many understand the Law of Attraction—and that is the Law of Resistance. Simply put it says, “if you exert a pressure against something there will be a resisting force pushing back.
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Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Melania Díaz López This very elegant little 6-year old is Melania Díaz López. Melania is the oldest of three children, including a new little brother Mauricio who is just three months old. Melania lives in Cedros, an area next to Ixtlahuacán, with her parents and siblings. As
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Why I will Never Fly Through the US Again By John Ward Part Two TSA = Taze Suspect Air-travelers My mouth felt dry after the “preliminary interview” so I popped two pieces of chewing gum onto my tongue to generate a little saliva as I prepared for my journey through the TSA gauntlet.
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