CHILD of the month By Barb Corol Angel Majia Chavez Angel was born with a cleft palate coupled with an abnormal growth. He is now 18 months old and the ‘after’ picture is post his reconstructive surgery, the first of many he will undergo in his young life. Mom,
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hess Daily Walks And The Excited Dog The daily dog walk is not only your best training and exercise opportunity, it is also the highlight of your dog’s day. The problem is many dogs get so overly excited with the prospect of going for the walk that
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Geiger Toadzilla Mexico is home to some of the tiniest wild creatures and to some of the largest, but this guy truly is king of toad family. The Giant Toad also known as the Cane Toad or Marine Toad is one of the largest toads in the world
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC The Times They Are A’Changin’ My mom tells me the world feels like it is changing too fast for her to make sense of it anymore. I used to look at her like she’d dropped in from another planet. It all looked normal enough to me.
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Mis-Estimation of Risk Many of your friends and relatives north of the border undoubtedly worry about your safety in Mexico. This is understandable, of course. The American and Canadian media make it appear as though the entire country is rife with violence. We who live here do not
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson A great way for advancing bridge players to further their skills is by watching top players in the heat of battle. Since the advent of the Internet this has become easier than ever with websites such as Bridge Base Online regularly covering high-level matches showing the play
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Finding Meaning And Purpose For Our Lives A few months ago I wrote a column featuring one of my favorite songs… “What’s It All About, Alfie?” In that column I tried to explore some of the nuances of choices we have as we grow older and hopefully
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez HEMINGWAY—Half a Century Later Almost fifty years have passed since Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Yet both the man and his work continue to loom large over the literary landscape, much as did Kenya’s Mount Kilimanjaro atop the setting of one of his most famous short
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Havoc In Motion By Jay White Mama and the Garter Snake When I was a schoolboy in Sonora, Texas, we lived near an enormous elm tree. At sundown, sparrows, thousands of them, would conspire to set up the most garrulous din imaginable—quarreling over roosting rights, you see, and Mama never failed to remark about it. “My Lord,” she would
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THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST By Ronald A. Barnett (Ed. Note: Our thanks to Mex-Connect, which first ran a much longer version of this article.) An article by Mr. Morgan Bedford entitled “New Spain’s Fifty Magical Years (1492-1542) appeared in the July, 1999, issue of the El Ojo del Lago. A more accurate title would
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