The Phoenix By Louise Drummond (Ed. Note: This is Ms. Drummond’s Introduction to her soon-to-published book entitled The Phoenix. Our readers should be warned that what follows is brutally candid.) My first memories are of violence: my father toward my mother, and both of them toward us children. Incest started on my fourth birthday. […]
THE GREGARIOUS HERMIT —Living in a Town with Few Gringos By Roberta Rich On December 15th, 1999, as our plane descended into the Manzanillo airport, I took my husband’s hand in mine and said, “In the next two weeks, we must either buy a house in Mexico or never speak of it again.” “Deal,”
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Luck And Blarney By Allen McGill “So, I’ll give you four wishes,” the leprechaun said to me, “bein’ it’s St. Paddy’s Day, and all. And you bein’ the fine Irish lad that y’are.” I didn’t know whether to trust him, leprechauns having the reputations that they do, but I really didn’t have much choice.
Democracy In Venezuela By Floyd Crosby Having visited Venezuela with a particular interest in the political situation there, I am incensed by the increasingly strident cries by U.S. politicians that its President, Hugo Chávez, is “a dictator” and “an enemy of the U.S.” whom the U.S. should remove (just as it has removed other
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The Words By Eric Roberts The present-day popular music is hard to understand. If the music has lyrics, you have to listen many times to figure out what is being said. The music is loud with drums and guitars and it is not easy to hear the words. The lyrics are often lost by
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez History’s Most Fascinating Fictional Hero Imagine a character so interesting that when his creator tried to kill him off, waves of dismay came from English-language readers all over the world. This same character would give rise to exclusive clubs in dozens of major cities, organizations whose sole purpose was
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If We Love Only One Person By Jim Tipton If we love only one person, that is obsession and not love. If we love only one religion, one thing is certain: we are not religious. If we love only one house we do not know what home really is. When we
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The Image Of Mexico By Herbert W. Piekow No image is more revered by Mexicans than that of the Virgin of Guadalupe. She appears on shirts worn by macho men, sewn onto school bags carried by students, as an emblem of faith around the necks of both sexes. The image of the Virgin of
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com Moneyball and Your Life I am a baseball fan. I love the game. I like everything about the game: its complexity, its leisurely pace; the diamond green oasis in the middle of a concrete environment; its tradition and legends; the fact that a game takes as long
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