Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Many duplicate bridge players have adopted Roman Key Card Blackwood (RKCB) as their weapon of choice when investigating slams, and with good reason: it is a vast improvement on the gadget created by Easley Blackwood many decades ago. The original Blackwood convention used a bid of 4 […]
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Freedom’s Odd Couple By Jim Tuck Comparing world famous (or infamous) personages has long been a pastime of historians. Napoleon is compared to Caesar, Hitler or Stalin to Genghis Khan, Voltaire to H.L. Mencken. Yet comparison is inhibited by the fact that the subjects frequently lived in different times and under differing conditions. Eighteen
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Since We Talked Of Growing Old I am slowly learning to take a swift look at the past & a sweet look at the future when I hold autumn against my senses when the air hangs with the aroma of fresh linen when all the roses are wearing raindrops I don’t suppose it matters that
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Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Vanesa V. R. This is six-month old Vanesa, a newcomer to Niños Incapacitados.She lives in La Canacinta with her parents, Carla and Abraham. Carla works part-time in a cactus nursery and Abraham is a busboy at Ajijic Tango. Even though both are so young, they are very
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Memories Of Michoacan By Cat Gonzalez Two young girls trudge down a dusty road in Michoacan, balancing pots of water on their heads. Both of them are so lovely, it makes your heart turn over, knowing that they, like their mothers and grandmothers before them, will marry at 14 or 15. Now they borrow
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An Actor’s Life In Little Theater By Ed Tasca To help you appreciate the art of the little theater, I want to share with you exactly what goes on behind the stage walls and into the corridors of the creative action itself. First, everything you see on the stage is fake, including the food,
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The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag “The Great Agnostic” Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) A young man approached a guest in a hotel lobby. He told him, “I am traveling for a tobacco house and have been in very poor luck. I haven’t made a decent living for my wife and little family.
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The Mid-Knight Rambler… By Ron Knight Oh boy, the way things have been going, I think we’ve all been in North America way too long. So I think we should all Move… On the count of three… One…Two…THREE! Hey! It’s good to be here! Stepping one step to the right, hey, it isn’t too bad
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The cover to the September “OJO” says it all. I never write back “to the editor” of any periodical, but today I am moved. Loren Swinehart’s thoughtful piece followed by Jim Tipton’s are the best rebuttal I’ve seen to the heartless, MINDLESS outcries against the children seeking refuge across
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The Hardest Question By Jim Rambo Forty three years ago you didn’t ask to know the sex of your soon-to-be-born child. No, back then the mystery of it all was enough. To paint the room pink or blue….and the matching carpet. Who cared? It was sufficient that my wife and I were happily expecting
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