A Tale of Three Elephants and an Elephant’s Tail Dr. Lorin Swinehart This is a story of three groups of elephants, one in Thailand, one in Botswana and a third in the US. The elephant in Thailand, along with his fellows, has been rescued from a life of hard work and cruelty by […]
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Contempt By Robert Bruce Drynan Closed Senate Hearing- Armed Services Committee “For the record, will you please state your name and present occupation?” “Lt. Coronel JoAnne Rae Hazlet, United States Army. I have recently returned from Iraq and I have received orders to report to the Military Police Training Command at Fort Leonard Wood,
Elizabeth Sellars, Elizabeth Sellars, The Ginger on the Hill By Leslie Johansen Nack There are gems hidden in every city—people with amazing educations and experiences who are filled with wisdom they might be reluctant to share or even acknowledge. One of those people in the lakeside community is my landlady Elizabeth Sellars—an unassuming, sometimes nervous, thin,
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Dressed in All Our Decades By Susa Silvamarie We’re dressed in all our decades, in rich brocades of life well-worn, and regularly mended. Vivid restoration patches— the hip, the shoulder, the knee– make us into living art! Our tatty brains save us from the trivial forgotten things, spare us for what matters. Delightfully scuffed
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Dinner With Friends By Donald Margulies Directed by Brian Fuqua This play premiered off-Broadway in 1999, and it has received many awards and nominations, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000. But to me it somehow lacked tension and I found it difficult to empathize with any
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Haiti Changed My Life By Sydney Gay Courage seems to me to be a consciousness beyond intellectual reasoning. For example, I went to Englewood Colorado immediately after the Columbine high school massacre where the local the Nazarene pastor had the courage to ask the entire Denver Symphony and a choir of five hundred volunteer voices
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Hiking with the Exes By Daria Hilton My daughter Kayla’s destination wedding in Kona went off with very few hitches. Her baby even waited until after the ceremony to have a complete meltdown. The only decision Kayla struggled with before the big day was who should walk her down the aisle: her biological father, or
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Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt My husband and I moved to Chapala nearly 15 years ago. We fell in love with Chapala and felt the love and joy of our Mexican neighbors. Our neighbors became extended families and the cities were filled with small shops and houses we could go to for people
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First Morning Back By Neil McKinnon One recent morning a pleasant lady in uniform patted the clothing in my suitcase, wished me welcome and showed me the way into Mexico by pointing to the door at the far end of the immigration area. A few minutes later, taxi ticket in hand, I stood outside
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Suggested For You By Tom Nussbaum Dear Facebook, Your posts on my Facebook page were, at first, just a few and I thought nothing of it. They seemed harmless. They, however, have become more frequent, now bordering on constant, and could cause an angrier, more volatile individual than myself to become irritated and a
