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Nowhere But In Mexico By Iris Slocombe   Christmas 2010 was about as unusual for me as can be imagined. I was writing a few last minute e-Mails before getting ready for the “carol sing” at church. I managed to get tangled in the castors on my husband Bert’s desk chair, and in a bad […]

My Most Embarrassing Moment By Sally Myers   I hung up the phone, ran down the steps, and stomped into the kitchen to find my mother. Putting my hands on my hips, I asked, “How come you never told me there was such a thing as circumcision?” She paused, took a long drag on her

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

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

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

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

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

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

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