Non-Sequiturs, Anyone? By Bob Tennison Claire and David were ecstatic when she gave birth to identical twin boys; they had difficulty telling them apart until she had a small leather band made for Tommy Gene’s wrist. When Claire’s father died, the boys were old enough to travel. They flew to Boulder, Colorado for his […]
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Gringas & Guacamole By Gail Nott The Path Traveled Only Once It was becoming increasingly difficult to concentrate and steer the SUV; the weight of the sleeping two year old was causing my arms to go numb. In the passenger seat, the old Mexican grandmother, shrouded in a black shawl, was muttering the Rosary.
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My Interview With April Glickenglopper By Lisa Jorgensen www.mexicoexpatpress.com What brings you to Mexico? I came here looking for my husband, actually. He went out for a newspaper, and never returned. This was years ago, and at first it was a relief, you know. But a friend of mine sent me a YouTube link of
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The NRA vs. AMERICA Compiled by Beverly Bandler Americans have to decide whether the National Rifle Association and the gun industry should continue to corrupt and control our political system—whether the NRA with an estimated 3 million membership and a management dominated by firearms manufacturers should elect politicians and determine public policy for 315
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Against The Dying Of The Light As Nature sentences the land to dieIt screams its last appeal in blazing leafExploding ‘gainst the shortened days. So IInvoke all powers to rage before the grief.I cling to you, as life to limb. Let firesDissolve the ice that’s creeping in your veins;Let sirens shriek – red
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag “The Mariachi Kid” President Kennedy gave his civil rights speech 50 years ago in what the New York Times calls “Kennedy’s finest moment.” It was the beginning of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by his successor, Lyndon Johnson. Racism is no longer the evil of
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Discovering Guadalajara the way Columbus might have: Getting Lost. By Ed Tasca Not long ago, I decided to take my first trip motoring into Guadalajara, the city once known as the Pearl of the West. To buy a set of drums. I’d never driven my car into Guadalajara before and I didn’t have a
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JOHN MUIR—Defender of the Wilderness By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “The mountains are calling and I must go.” Once when a fierce windstorm raged through California’s Yuba Valley, John Muir, perhaps our greatest wilderness advocate, climbed a 100-foot Douglas pine to better experience nature in all her glory. He was spellbound as trees six feet
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DEAR PORTIA —Advice to the Lovelorn, the Overfed and The Deeply Disgruntled DEAR PORTIA: I have been writing short stories and poems for most of my life, yet have never had anything published. But that’s not what bothers me. By now I am on a first-name basis with rejection. Yet I still derive great satisfaction
