Amongst A Lifetime Of Achievements By Tod Jonson Chairman, Lakeside Community Awards Committee Though our 2012 Community Awards ceremony has been temporarily postponed, we thought it important to inform those who might wonder how our Awards Committee sometimes makes its decisions that the following were some of the facts we reviewed before deciding on […]
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Report From The Future By J. C. Kottler Via a worm hole in the universe, I have a report from the future. Believe it or not, Rick Perry is going to be our next President. This may seem hard to believe, especially after his recent, disastrous, debate performance, but stranger things have happened. Here
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “Making Love with Form or Spirit” At the beginning of January, I published a new collection of poems—To Love for a Thousand Years—that was at least in part inspired by the poems of the Sufi master, Hafiz (c.1320-1389), Persia’s most beloved poet. In recent decades, Daniel
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Mexico’s Dynamic Economy By Robert Kleffel (Courtesy of Carol Wheeler, mexico@mexconnect.com) It is often said that when the US gets a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. This time it didn’t happen. Let’s look at the data from Mexico’s dynamic economy. During this last recession, in the US millions of homes are in foreclosure, 250 banks
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. So You Think You Can Dance? Of course you can! The late Martha Graham claimed that dance is the hidden language of the soul. Everyone can dance – so can you! I will never forget my first dance lesson in Ajijic at the ripe
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Lethal Conspiracy By Gary Fuller Reviewed by David Bryen I’ told my wife, not as kindly as I wanted to: “Don’t distract me. I’ll eat dinner as soon as I finish the book.” When I got to the end of Lethal Conspiracy, I jumped out of my chair as if I’d been stung by
Inside Alzheimer’s Disease By Michael Cook As family members and friends, we can research A.D. and find out the facts and the implications on how the disease can impact on the sufferer. So I decided to look at the disease from the sufferer’s perspective. This was the challenge because nobody knows what the sufferer
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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
