Another Bite Of History By Mel Goldberg On March 5, 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrrhage. His body was preserved and placed in Lenin’s mausoleum. Dora Abramova, a staunch party member, said she had kept Lenin in her heart to help her through hard times. She said she had consulted […]
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La Frontera Fabulosa By June Summers The U.S.-Mexican border is an imaginary line stretching from San Diego to Matamoros. It is 1,933 miles long, and forms the southwest boundaries of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Its influence permeates an area two to three hundred miles wide, on both sides of the line. Traveling
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The Wall By Gloria Marthai Current memory of the formidable wall and gate is becoming mistier, receding as a shadow touched by darkness, falling away into the unrecorded past. Built in turbulent, repressive times following the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Rebellion, it remained a veritable wedge until 1935, separating the two barrios of
Apartheid, Cricket & Dolly By David Harper Basil D’Oliveira died today in England. He was 80 or maybe 83; his real age was always a mystery. I saw him play in Kidderminster in 1964 and I followed his career with interest. “Dolly,” as he was known, was a professional cricketer. He became famous as
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To Love for a Thousand Years/El amor que dura mil años Ediciones del Lago (2011) Poems by James Tipton; translations by Flor Aguilera García Reviewed by Margaret Van Every Available at Diane Pearl Colecciones, Galería Sol Mexicano, and Coffee & Bagels $10 US/100 pesos Just when you thought you knew Jim Tipton through his
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Keeping Up With The Jones’ By Tod Jonson People in Southern Alabama have an idea that they are just ‘down-home-sorta-folks’ who enjoy everything and that you are going to enjoy it with them. The Jones family of three brothers wanted to go hunting and take me along. Little did they know that I am
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LAKESIDE LIVING Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com FEBRUARY 2012 Past Events On a warm and sunny New Year’s Day, twenty two people waded into the placid waters of Lake Chapala at the Chapala Malecón. Why? These adventurous folks were there to raise funds for the Cruz Roja. Once in
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Steps By Nora Thea Life is full of steps. When we are babies we must take our first step in order to walk later. We learn that in order to become adults we must take small steps. First we are in grade school, then junior high and high school and finally we go to
The Lone Ranger By Mark Schwimmer We knew very little about each others’ innards. I didn’t know what I required of him and was too young to ask even if I had. Anyway, it just wasn’t done. Parents and their children revolved in separate orbits. Interactions between the two camps were created by a
Letter to the Editor “Dear Sir: I was gratified to find my poem “Tenacatita Bay” included in the January issue under the byline of that talented and prolific writer Anon. He/she has written so many and so varied poems, limericks and epitaphs that I am flattered to be mentioned in his/her body of work.
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