Unsung Heroes By Queen D. Michele queendmichele@yahoo.com Mariana Kyle Rivera There’s a saying that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. So true is the case of North Shore locals Mariana Kyle Rivera and her mother Fabiola Rivera Gonzalez. Their story of determination and courage began once mom was diagnosed with a debilitating
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The View From The Treehouse Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees….If you don’t love trees, you don’t love God.” St. Nikephoros of Chios It was actually more of a tree platform than a treehouse, a plain square board nailed into the fork of a
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Veterans’ Day By Robert Drynan Korean War Memorial, Washington D.C. A patrol moves silently through the perimeter. The darkness shrouds their movement and the cascading rain muffles their progress. It’s a large patrol, a dozen men, led by a sergeant who has been in the line for eight months. Occasionally lightning in the distance
A Dog Named Socrates By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@aol.com Once upon a time, a dog of independent mind strolled this planet, refusing to think, feel, or act a certain way simply because other dogs were doing so. His way of relating to the world began during birth, when his eight siblings fought for top exiting
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The Life of Santiago By Zofia Barisas It was a Tuesday late afternoon. I was watching the Conferencia de Prensa Sobre COVID 19 with Dr. Lopez Gatell and Dr. Alomia. Suddenly I heard a long scream from outside, followed by a deep silence and then the sound of many voices. I went to look
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Ida’s Ghost By Tom Nussbaum It was late at night just before Halloween. 1968. Maybe ‘69. Several of us were crammed into a small, third-floor bedroom in our college fraternity house talking. The conversation meandered, appropriately, to scary events in our lives. Power outages. Near-miss car accidents. Unexplained phenomena. Ghost stories. “My aunt,” Jack
Fascinating Tales of Mexican Street Names Ignacio Allende By David Ellison What if? If only…. Captain Ignacio Allende is the forgotten hero of the Mexican War for Independence. Born to a wealthy Criollo (American-born Spanish) family, he quickly distinguished himself as a courageous military officer in the army of New Spain. Even so, he
Astrolynx By Juan Sacelli November Report The heavy retrograde (review) energies of early October lie behind us; now the wheels of fate begin to grind inexorably forward. November opens with a Scorpio New Moon (Nov 4 4:14 pm CDT) directly opposite retrograde Uranus. Scorpio’s intensity confronts the ‘earth changes’ we are going through. Whether
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
