Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Bring Back That Lovin’ Feeling There may be no better feeling in the world than being in love. New love is fueled by a chemical soup that makes the sun shine brighter, food taste better, and touch feel exhilarating. Unfortunately, those chemicals diminish after around […]
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Seven God-Given Basic Needs Of Man RETIREMENT: What a wonderful word, we thought, as we stepped down from our professions in the marketplace. And, for a while it was indeed like the song “What a Wonderful World.” Then we began to deal with something we hadn’t had
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr Evolution Is Us I’d been out in the garden observing the rampant evolution of bugs, worms, blight and fungus from small to gigantic, when I sat down with the newspaper to rest and spied the headline: “Mammals Evolve Faster in the Tropics” (http://www.aut.ac.nz/news/aut-news/evolution-faster-in-the-tropics). I immediately knew that
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer “When I was a Kid…” Before moving here, I lived in New England, where citizens still make decisions about spending in small towns using the venerated “town meeting.” The citizens gather, usually on a Saturday in March, and vote on the proposed budget for the coming year. These
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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 in Lakeside. The bidding on this hand
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Op-EDBy Maggie Van OstrandYou Got To Know When To Fold ‘Em When Kenny Rogers sang, “Ya got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em …” in his hit, “The Gambler,” he was singing about more than playing cards, he was singing about life with Josefina. With all that’s going on in
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez What follows is an announcement that will run in the August debut issue of our new sister-publication El Ojo del Mar. The decision to expand into Mexico’s Gold Coast was not made lightly. The move will entail a great deal of time, expense and effort. What has given us
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Loss Of What!? By Jim Rambo When I wasn’t in the courtroom with judges and juries, I would sometimes act as an arbitrator of civil cases. Generally the cases took about an hour or two and the pay was $300.00. I was on the state payroll and so the extra money came in handy.
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The Microcosm of a NationOr The Curious Case of Elie Wiesel By Jim Muir “Hay que tenir cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciandose a ellos.” If any individual could symbolize the psychic and moral disconnection that is reflected by the words and actions of the Zionists who comprise the
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GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Mechanic Ally Challenged I am not sure if it is because we are mechanically challenged or we are unprepared for the intricacies of living in Mexico but nothing works like we think it should. I am getting so paranoid, I look at a safety pin with skepticism. The
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