First Communion By Gloria Marthai As seen from the high, curving highway, the village seems a quaint, appealing place where women launder in the lake and kids splash and skip stones. Mosaic fields are orderly. Changing crop colors and textures please the eye. But seen from within, the view is dim. It is a […]
How Federally Funded Condoms Ruined My Life By J. C. Kottler Presidential candidate Rick Santorum claims that federal support for contraception is “…a license to do things in a sexual realm.” In other words, he‘s against the Feds handing out free condoms. Many critics call him a fool and a prude, but my personal
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Tenacatita Bay By An Anonymous Contributor Sunrise A final star winks out : old lady moon drives by, sad and alone hunched in her 1989 white Cadillac : she’s off to rest all day in the chateau her second husband left her. Black trees become dark green then lighter green – the whitewash
IF A GIANT RETAILER RAN THE BANKS… By Ed Tasca Despite the current economic downturn, banks, it appears, are flush with profits, even Mexican banks. Largely, this has been accomplished in several ways, efficiency of operation, creating new markets and sucking in surprised passersby with the fastest-opening automatic doors. The problem with bank efficiency
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OLD FRIENDS By Bonnie L. Phillips Susan had difficulty breathing when she reached the hilltop and saw her old friend standing alone amongst dead brush and a stump-strewn moonscape. Sunlight glinted off the crooked metal plaque erected next to the tree. Early this morning, like every other morning when Susan hiked with her walking
Answers To Exam Questions The following questions were set in last year’s GCSE examination in Swindon, Wiltshire, U.K. These are genuine answers (from 16-year-olds) and they WILL breed. Q. Name the four seasons. A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink. A.
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Lifeguard Your Vision—Naturally! Cataract surgery and various treatments for macular degeneration and glaucoma are topics of concern in a senior community. Age-related Macular Degeneration is a disease of the retina and is the leading cause of legal blindness for those 65 years and
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AN INSPRING TRUE STORY Courtesy of Nancy Hagen An interesting fact that many are unaware of is the historic events that surrounded a Jewish chaplain on Iwo Jima, where, of 70,000 American Marines, 1,500 were Jewish. Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, assigned to the Fifth Marine Division, was the first Jewish chaplain the Marine Corps
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “On Loving-Kindness” Ayya Khema, born to Jewish parents in Germany, as a teenager fled in 1938 to Scotland with two-hundred other children to escape the impending Nazi nightmare. Two years later she joined her parents in Shanghai (where her father died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp). After
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Twas the Night Before Christmas, MEXICAN STYLE! By An Anonymous Contributor Twas the night before Christmas and all through the casa,Not a creature was stirring. Caramba! Que pasa?Los niños were tucked away en su cama,Some in long underwear, some en pijama. They hung up their stockings con mucho cuidadoIn hopes that old Santa
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