Aura, Ghosts and Such By Marnie Johnson A friend of mine believes in auras. I have never seen this ghostly glow and therefore don’t know if auras exist. At the same time, I’m aware that my friend does see them. She calls the glows ‘energy fields’ and tells me that everyone has an aura,
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Uncommon Common SenseBy Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com Critical Thinking Is Subversive! When I used to attend the International Conference on Critical Thinking in California each year, I became convinced that teaching students to think clearly was not only desirable, but possibly essential to finding our way out of the morass of political gridlock we find
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GRINGA VS. COBBLESTONES By Carol Curtis When living in northern New England, sliding on the ice was always a worry. Each winter, Gary and I would pray that we would survive another icy slip n’ slide season; each winter one of us came close to ending our time on earth by a misstep on
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson They say that a little learning is a dangerous thing and I found this out to my cost when I played this hand during my summer sojourn in Toronto. As herself had the day off for good behaviour, I was playing with another partner at Hazel’s, probably
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC Facing Our Fears With the approach of Halloween, what better time to talk about fear. Many children and adults love celebrating Halloween because sometimes it’s fun to be scared. Lots of people enjoy masquerading as their favorite monster, going to a horror movie, or riding the
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Tipping Among Friends By M.A. Porter I floated a crackling, blue 20-peso tip onto the cuenta tray. My friend Sheila (name changed to protect the super-nice) said, “Oh, doncha think it should be about fifteen?” Her eyes swept over my 20-peso note as if it were worrisome manna. I asked, “Fifteen what?” She said,
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Medicine in Mexico “Welcome” was the last word I expected to hear as I was wheeled into the operating room at Sanatorio de San Francisco de Assisi in Guadalajara. Yet “Welcome” was exactly what I heard; and Beethoven’s Für Elise playing in the background. My surgeon introduced everyone
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GRAPE EXPECTATIONS By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Bordeaux Red Wines Bordeaux There is something very special about the first sip of a great wine from Bordeaux. The history of this wine growing area goes back to Roman times. Bordeaux wine production seems to have begun sometime after 43 AD, when César’s Legions conquered
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum You have found or rescued a cat/dog. After your initial action, then the problem arises, what do you do with this animal? If you think of Anita’s Animals to help you with your problem, you have now transferred ownership of your problem to another person – which is fine.
MOVING TO MEXICO By Lisa JorgensenReviewed by Francine Britton A big thank you to Lisa Jorgensen for writing this book! I read through it just as I was approaching my sixth month of living as a newly-minted retiree in Ajijic, Mexico and knew for sure that Lisa Jorgensen had ‘been there and done
