The Automat By Patricia Hemingway On a narrow side street in downtown Manhattan, the lights are still on in Malik’s Automat Café. The surrounding offices are dark and their elevators sit at ground level, empty and quiet. The security guard who lounges behind a desk in the cavernous lobby next door to Malik’s, whose […]
The Wake By Gabrielle Blair No fancy funeral home with polished floors and polished knobs, and undertakers in undertones, and soft-spoken mourners in subdued lighting – where money speaks. Theirs is outdoors – the street is closed. Plastic chairs in rows on cobbles – familiar faces – the village folk of Six Corners face
Yachting In Manzanillo By Margie Keane One thing I have learned while living in Mexico is that to enjoy it to the fullest one must be open to new experiences, get to know the people, learn something of their culture and keep your sense of humor. This story is about a new experience and
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Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt Insurance Miseries They sit there glaring at me from their pile in my inbox. It seems no matter how hard I try they won’t go away. Insurance claims. At a time in my life when I should be healing and mourning my husband’s passing, they consume my time
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THE POLIO WARD University of Michigan 1957 PART TWO By Janice Kimball The incessant pushing of air into the lungs of helpless children, then sucking it back out, in mechanical death-defying beats. ‘Phew-Whooh, Phew-Whooh’ continued through the days and the nights when I was thirteen years old and laying on my back, feet strapped
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The Day We Met George By Linda Steele February 12 of 2021, a record-breaking winter storm hit the Texas Hill Country in Central Texas. The folks living in this part of the country were not equipped for such a cold and long-lasting storm. Wind generators froze, livestock and wildlife succumbed to the cold. Once
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Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes The Fall Fall, not the season upon us, full of Walt Whitmanesque descriptions of vibrant colors and crisp air, but the kind of fall where gravity asserts itself. This topic is suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the topic du jour, the topic of the year. First, I noticed
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Judge Less; Love More By Christy Wiseman I recently heard a beautiful interview with Paul Mitchell (for those of you who don’t know, he was the retired representative from Michigan, who went into office as a Republican, but later left the party for the Independent party, as did I, and for the same reasons)
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El Dorado The Legend The Muisca Raft By Robert Drynan Discovered by peasants in 1856, it is the center piece of the Gold Museum in Bogotá, Colombia. The raft is a single unit made from a lost art using a clay mold. It portrays the rite of propitiation of the God of Lake Guatavita,
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com 2020 was a year of challenge, but it had prepared the front liners in Tepehua Community Center a little for the challenges of 2021 although they were different inasmuch as everything intensified. We can all name people around us who have contracted
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