UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer It’s Easy to Identify a False Cause So here’s the problem. You hear a report on television that a new study has found that people who take a daily multivitamin live longer than people who do not. “Wow,” You exclaim, “I better start taking a multivitamin” Simple, right? […]
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Abraham Emiliano Ramírez Rivera While many of the children helped by Niños Incapacitados del Lago live with diseases and maladies known to most all of us, our Child of the Month this time was born with not one, but two, syndromes unknown to any of us in
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Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Unforeseen Events I used to think retirement would be a predictable time of life. I would live in a rose-covered cottage by the sea, bake scones, and take long walks into town. Old friends and offspring would visit at predictable times, work would occupy predictable morning hours,
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Six Degrees of Separation to How a Mexican Star Became a Cajun Legend Even if you have never wondered what ties Mexico to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I’m going to tell you anyway. It begins with a poem. Longfellow’s epic 1847 poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” is the story
Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Domingez Ajijic—The Movie!(Reprinted by Request) Prior to settling here in 1987, I had spent the previous 25 years laboring in the vineyards of the American film industry. Hollywood was then (and still is) famous for its colorful characters. However, as I already knew, Hollyweird (as it is known by some
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A Warrior’s Worry By Jim Rambo The President came to visit last week. He’s been with me before And like millions of others who stop by He doesn’t even know my name. They pay homage without knowledge Of me, the man, a devoted husband, once skin and bones. They prefer now not to know.
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MILITARISM DAY By Kenneth G. Crosby The observation of Memorial Day in the U.S. on May 25, when all Americans were asked to stop whatever they were doing and observe a minute of silence for members of the military who have “given their lives to preserve our freedom,” implied that all members of
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GOD ON THE LINE By susan q. miller “You can’t answer the phone when you’re dead.” That was the first thing on my mind this morning even before my feet touched the floor. No, you can’t answer the phone, but when you’re dead, neither can you dance or sing or touch another human being,
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PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Center She is just a little thing, hungry lost and afraid. It is only a dog and so many of her species face the same fate and we are unaware of the plight that goes on around
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LETTING THE GARDEN GROW WILD By Michael Hogan is something we do in alternate years: bougainvillea branching up over the roof violet and orange bracts falling in a carpet from the back door to the far retaining wall. Morning glories curling up the smooth bark of the plane tree and the mango so heavy
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