DON’T ASSUME By Mel Goldberg Angela walked from the hospital toward her car at the end of the dimly lit staff parking lot. She hated the long midnight walk at the end of her Saturday night shift when many of her friends were partying. To save expenses, the hospital had reduced staff to a
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1968 – The Year We All Fell Down By Roxanne Sumners Utzman roxanneutzman@hotmail.com In 1966, two gas stations up on Whittier Boulevard had a gas war and I could fill the tank of my new VW Bug for under $5. My girlfriends and I cruised around town – Beach Boys on the radio, windows
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Mahatma Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World. (Courtesy of Angela Cook) 1. Change “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “As human beings, our greatness is not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as
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Letter to the Editor I have always been a big fan of the Truth and your editorial lays out the plain unadulterated truth of these foreign wars. Halfway around the planet, having no bearing or consequences to the American people, except perhaps the impoverishment of seniors, loss of healthcare all around and people going hungry. “Age is a question
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HEAVEN AND HELL By An Anonymous Contributor A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading
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STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D. Healthful Aging In past issues I wrote about the elderly, the variability and diversity involved in such a stage of life. Much material written about aging focuses on loss. Although older adult sometimes experience physical, mental, or psychological losses, continued growth and creative expression often mark
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The Trip That Changed My Life By Kelly Hayes-Raitt I came home pregnant. Of course, I didn’t know it until the laundry was done and the jet lag had lapsed. India had shaken my soul, now it had invaded my uterus. India seeped into my pores. This uncontainable country’s smelly colors and infiltrating chaos
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren The Kitchen WitchesBy Caroline SmithDirected by Roger Tredway If you like farce and slapstick, you’ll enjoy this play by Canadian playwright Caroline Smith. The Kitchen Witches is set in a small town cable TV station – it’s a hokey cooking show and we are the studio audience. So
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Letter to the Editor Regarding Cosmology and Theology, what was it that God created in six days before he rested on the Sabbath? Was it the entire universe? The Bible tells about the earth and the sun, and the lesser light of the moon. But I think the Bible is mistaken when it says that
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Get that Tube Out of Here! So I find myself in a relatively new relationship. The first few months were magical – lots of intimate moments, deep conversations, eye contact galore, and tons of together activities. Then, enter one of the most invasive, mindless inventions
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