BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Bridge literature is filled with the exploits of the “giants of the game” as they make seemingly impossible contracts through what appears to be magic to us lesser mortals. Occasionally, however, a technique will resonate with us and eventually we will get the opportunity to employ it […]
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Democracy in Crisis I am certain that many of you are familiar with Winston Churchill’s famous quote, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” We’ve all gotten a laugh out of that line, and probably nodded
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Our Trip To The Butterflies By Kay Thompson Touted as one of the natural wonders of the world, the butterfly sanctuary in the mountains of Michoacán has long been on my life list. Finally this year, my husband and I signed up for a three day, two night trip to Morelia, the capital of
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Biggest Little Man in Mexico(Republished by Request) The first time I met Norberto Mejia, he reminded me of the noble water-bearer in Rudyard’s Kipling’s immortal poem, Gunga Din. Hurried (and often faulty) typecasting of just about everyone I meet is one of my many mental aberrations; a carryover, I
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Rascal Sage” George Gurdjieff, the “Rascal Sage,” was born in 1870 of a Greek father and Armenian mother in the Caucasus region of Russia. According to Kathleen Riordan Speeth in The Gurdjieff Work, he wandered the world “to find the remnants, the descendants, or the
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Lakeside Living Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com December 2011 The winners of the November 3, 2011 Cruz Roja golf classic were Mary and Brooks Wingrave, Rod and Maggie Pye. The day was a great success. The Country Club de Chapala golf course was in perfect condition, the weather not too
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SOME SHOCKING INFORMATION By Robert Kleffel and Jim Tipton Every Wednesday morning we eat breakfast together on the Ajijic Plaza and discuss our common interests in literature and all things beautiful. Often as we ponder deeply the merits of this or that, we find ourselves distracted by a beautiful señorita who, totally indifferent to
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FUNNY STRANGE By John Hicks Many years ago when I was in my 20s, I broke up with a girlfriend. She dumped me in fact because we had not gotten married nor moved toward it in the two years we had lived together. Fed up, she declared she would move out. Just before she moved out, I was in
Tamed By Bonnie L. Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com Josh looked at the “wild animal” with sadness in his eyes. He had saved money for five years in order to see the last living tiger on Earth. She was surrounded by glass on three sides to allow the people who stood in line to watch her before
