The Final Enlightenment Of Mrs. Yates By John Porcelli My last two years at Yale were spent happily ensconced in the 2nd floor back bedroom rented to me by my highly eccentric landlady, Mrs. Yates. I had a girlfriend Farida who came up on weekends from Sweetbriar, whom Mrs. Yates accommodated with the small […]
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To All The Girls I Loved Before By Tom Nussbaum Remember the award-winning Willie Nelson-Julio Iglesias collaboration “To All the Girls I Loved Before?” I do. And, like them, I remember all the girls that I have loved before. What? I loved girls? Is that a shock? Well, I did. It was before I
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“Think Big” By Fred Mittag The American Jobs Plan is a proposed $2 trillion infrastructure investment. The urgency is apparent. These projects will facilitate American commerce and promote prosperity. The plan will hire workers at good wages, so it is a win-win proposition. We are falling behind the rest of the world in significant areas. Several bridges have collapsed,
Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Vaccination Unknown I haven’t had this much desire to party since my college days. I eagerly plan something colorful and exciting to wear to dinner. No more yoga pants and tank tops from dusk until dawn, no more days running through the house in pajamas. I am replacing
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Our Remaining Time By Sue Schools On January 13, 1840, a tall, bearded man ran down the pier to catch the steamboat Lexington which was to leave from Long Island, New York cruising to Stonington, Connecticut, where he could have caught a train returning to his Boston home and family. He had been delayed
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Verdant View By Francisco Nava Effective Communication With Your Gardener A few tips I’ve learned along the way. Many people ask what is the primary difference between gardeners at Lakeside and gardeners north of the border? Aside from language, we primarily see two types of gardening jobs. First is the garden maintenance of an
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com The change in Tepehua is not always gradual. In 2021 alone the roads have been repaired, not one at a time but several, creating confusing navigation through the broken streets. Electric poles have been changed and Telmex is available in most areas.
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Ramblings From The Ranch By Christina Bennett How to Find Your Next Best Friend When we exit the car for our volunteer shift at The Ranch, we hear the barking. It’s our friends, waiting to see us. We fill our pockets with the biscuits we have brought and start saying hello. The first kennel
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Word Salad By Sally Asante Crazy English Part 7 [Directory blurb: A final look at the comical vagaries of the English language.] In the rigid expressions that wear tonal grooves in the record of our language, beck can appear only with call, cranny with nook, hue with cry, main with might, fettle only with
Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz By David Ellison Juana Inés was an illegitimate child and, what was far worse, a woman. Even so, she emerged as the greatest American intellect of the 17th Century. Juana Inés could read and write by the age of 3. At 16, she begged to masquerade as
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