Life Among The Animals —We Love some, we eat some, fear some Dr. Lorin Swinehart One sultry summer day when I was two, I accompanied my father on a jaunt across my grandfather’s pasture, where our fox terrier Bobby could be heard barking excitedly. We found him face to face with a large ground
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View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com A Visit to Don Otavio For those who want to try a tiny adventure to the south shore, make a pilgrimage to the Hacienda San Martin, only a couple of miles south of Jocotepec. This private hacienda is reputedly the location of Sybille Bedford’s classic 1953
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Are We Really Out Of Iraq? By Kelly Hayes-Raitt I’m going back in August to find out. Iraq first captured me in February 2003, five weeks before my country captured it. I returned three months after the US-led invasion to find the Iraqis who had so deeply touched me. I wrote about my encounters
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Mexico’s French Pastry War By Herbert W. Piekow In the first twenty years of Independence from Spain, Mexico averaged a President per year and in 1828 Mexico City saw four violent days as forces of Presidential candidates Manuel Gómez Pedraza and Vincente Guerrero Saldaña fought in the streets. When the dust had once more
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“Hand-Me-Down Female Bun-Maker” By John Ward It transpires that I have an extraordinary type of memory called “pre-natal cognition.” I am able to remember everything about my birth and before, from the time nature put a brain into my Cranium. My first memory was seeing my bottom half, which looked like a salamander. For
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Drowsy Chaperone Directed by Dave McIntosh Choreographed by Barbara Clippinger Musical Director Judy Hendrick The Drowsy Chaperone began as a spoof of old musicals created in 1997 by Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison for the stag party in Toronto of Bob Martin and Janet Van
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What Memory? By Sunny Glessner Isn’t everyone challenged somehow today? My challenge is my memory. I can remember my name but maybe not yours. Seriously. And I do mean seriously. We all know about using lists. Well, I’ve done that for years including my bucket list, but now I forget to take the list
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: I would like to extend my compliments for your publication which is of higher quality than any similar publication I have ever seen. Your covers are magnificent and your articles are very readable. I do have a serious reservation. The bulk of your readers are American and Canadian
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The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Those who managed to tear their eyes away from Julie Christie long enough to pay attention to character development probably noticed that Zhivago was not only a doctor but a poet, too. And let’s not forget that when Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for
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The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag “Seductress of Minds and Bodies” Ayn Rand’s sex life was consistent with her political philosophy. She sought only selfish gratification. She called her inner circle the “Collective,” an odd name. She was from Russia and preached rugged individualism, perhaps in reaction to the Communist Revolution – but
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