The World of Wine By Ceci Rodriguez Pairing Food With Wine (Second Part) Tannins in wine come primarily from grape skins, seeds and stems. Tannins are found, to a much greater degree, in the skins of red grapes than in the skins of white grapes. They are extracted from these solids during the fermentation
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch A Romance with Band Music My iPod contains an eclectic mixture of music—anything by Mozart, Bach’s Goldberg variations, female Latin vocalists such as Mercedes Soza, Amparo Ochoa, Cesarea Evora, and Chavela Vargas. Most of the downloads are thanks to my generous B and B guests who have shared
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Mastering Your Own Life Self-mastery can be defined as the ability to make the most out of yourself through maximizing your physical, mental, and spiritual health. It allows you to live a more intentional life, a life in which you make conscious choices and find
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer It’s Really Very Simple…Or Is It? There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken Prejudices: Second Series, 1920) As humans, the only animals with the ability to reason on a high level, we are perpetually trying to figure things out.
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Sandra Elizabeth DeAnda Márquez Even though this month’s featured child was profiled about three years ago, you might not remember her since she has grown up so much. Sandra is now 15 and in her third year of high school. She is an excellent student. Her favorite
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Ken Masson has been playing, teaching and writing about bridge for 35 years. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Ken has been living in Toronto since 1967. He and his wife and bridge partner, Rosemarie, are now in their third year wintering at Lakeside. Herself and myself have played
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Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Hints for the Vegetably Challenged My husband’s views in this space last month, while nobly defending the male viewpoint on eating vegetables, may have caused some misconceptions. Thus, I am going to go back to the question I posed in my earlier column: Why is the color
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood I Too Have a Dream Fittingly, Barack Obama’s inauguration took place on the very site where Martin Luther King delivered his I Have a Dream speech. I too have a dream. As a volunteer member of Obama’s advisory team it is my hope that America will now
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Raw Juicing People often ask me, “What are you on?” or “Are you always like this?” Referring to what they perceive as my high energy. So I would like to share with you what I feel gives me my best energy on a daily
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Juanita and the President It may be time to add one more famous face to the posters hanging on my wall, the ones of Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Someone new may be exciting enough to be placed among them. I know because I heard all about
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