LAKESIDE LIVING Tod Jonson todoflcs@yahoo.com Barbara Clippinger clippy1020@gmail.com May 2012 Both of us wish to thank each of you readers who enjoyed our column in Ojo’s April issue. We are most grateful for your enthusiasm and your best wishes to us. Therefore, may we give you MAY FLOWERS? Please share them with every mother you
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MEXICO— A Cautionary Tale I was warned. … Repeatedly. Warned. So many times it lost its potency. Warned. By well-meaning friends living in “safe” gated communities with armed guards By acquaintances who have never been here By media reports glamorizing and spreading alarm Who have a different definition of danger. And of what constitutes safety.
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Grape Expectations By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Wine Blending Most of us, who were raised in the New World, order wines by the varietal name such as Cabernet or Chardonnay. In Europe, wine buyers order by a place name such as Bordeaux knowing that they were buying a blended red wine with Cabernet Sauvignon
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Four Mothers On The Block By M.A. Porter My son John died on January 2 from an accidental overdose. He was only 31. He had a few drinks one night and then took a strong painkiller, and the combination of chemistry stopped his heart. He didn’t have much of either in his system, but
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Dear Sir: I am most upset that our president, as our US Constitution is set up, is not permitted to govern. We need an American Parliamentary Democracy, like in Canada, which will enable our elected leader to carry out his campaign promises. I have written a political essay/novel presenting many of our present political ills,
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Grace By Loretta Downs The Thanksgiving after my mother died, I sat at the dinner table and looked around at a dozen of my loved ones ranging from my 22-year-old godson, a Marine on his way to Iraq, to my 92-year-old aunt, the last living of my mother’s five siblings. As the head of
Romney, Pinocchio, ET AL. By Fred Mittag We should not casually stereotype any group. But inductive reasoning leads to the conclusion that conservatives are liars. The media reject that word, but “liar” is in the dictionary and its sturdy meaning is appropriate. There are the aggressive liars who are the leaders and the passive
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Sex Please, We’re SixtyBy Michael & Susan ParkerDirected by Pat Carroll As the title suggests, this play is all about sex, menopause and little blue pills. It’s a farcical comedy set in the Rose Cottage B&B, somewhere in New England – not really a traditional farce, because a true
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The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconcemsconce@gmail.com Robert Frost (1874-1963) When I consider his homely Yankee farmer persona and recollect his iconic New England themes (After Apple-picking, Mending Wall, The Last Mowing), I have to laugh that Robert Frost was born and mostly bred in San Francisco. But when the family moved to Massachusetts, Frost
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Village Vignettes By Micki Wendt While waiting for the bus at my corner, a young mama and her little boy, who had a small, slightly electronic toy, stood near me I smiled and said hola. Silently, the little boy wandered over and loaned me his little toy while he went to sit down on the
