“Think Big” By Fred Mittag The American Jobs Plan is a proposed $2 trillion infrastructure investment. The urgency is apparent. These projects will facilitate American commerce and promote prosperity. The plan will hire workers at good wages, so it is a win-win proposition. We are falling behind the rest of the world in significant areas. Several bridges have collapsed,
Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Vaccination Unknown I haven’t had this much desire to party since my college days. I eagerly plan something colorful and exciting to wear to dinner. No more yoga pants and tank tops from dusk until dawn, no more days running through the house in pajamas. I am replacing
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Our Remaining Time By Sue Schools On January 13, 1840, a tall, bearded man ran down the pier to catch the steamboat Lexington which was to leave from Long Island, New York cruising to Stonington, Connecticut, where he could have caught a train returning to his Boston home and family. He had been delayed
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Verdant View By Francisco Nava Effective Communication With Your Gardener A few tips I’ve learned along the way. Many people ask what is the primary difference between gardeners at Lakeside and gardeners north of the border? Aside from language, we primarily see two types of gardening jobs. First is the garden maintenance of an
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com The change in Tepehua is not always gradual. In 2021 alone the roads have been repaired, not one at a time but several, creating confusing navigation through the broken streets. Electric poles have been changed and Telmex is available in most areas.
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Ramblings From The Ranch By Christina Bennett How to Find Your Next Best Friend When we exit the car for our volunteer shift at The Ranch, we hear the barking. It’s our friends, waiting to see us. We fill our pockets with the biscuits we have brought and start saying hello. The first kennel
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Word Salad By Sally Asante Crazy English Part 7 [Directory blurb: A final look at the comical vagaries of the English language.] In the rigid expressions that wear tonal grooves in the record of our language, beck can appear only with call, cranny with nook, hue with cry, main with might, fettle only with
Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz By David Ellison Juana Inés was an illegitimate child and, what was far worse, a woman. Even so, she emerged as the greatest American intellect of the 17th Century. Juana Inés could read and write by the age of 3. At 16, she begged to masquerade as
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El Gringo By Juan Mata By Robert Bruce Drynan They sent us another gringo. The gringo jefes in Caracas don’t trust the new jefe Guaicaipuro. Maybe they send this gringo to watch him. Not so stupid after all. The other gringo jefes they sent before Guaicaipuro were hard to understand. Now they send Guaicaipuro
LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 July 2021 “ We have to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.“ D.H. Lawrence The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range of presentations. For more information and to make reservations,
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