Recalling Some College Capers By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez There comes a time in our lives when we have a great deal more to remember than to anticipate, and in just such a mood I find myself dwelling on my college years, not that they were anything so special but still several notches above my high school […]
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com Ironing Out The Wrinkles In Tepehua’s 2021 Project The purpose of the project is to bring sanitation and health to Tepehua. Every barrio has the problem of disposing of human and animal waste. Those who live on the paved main streets with lights
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Searching for Gurney By Jack Estes Review by Robert Drynan (A Marine Veteran of Vietnam) This book is a unique effort that successfully ignores the usual dramatic arc. It is a kaleidoscopic series of vignettes of the experiences of three marines serving in Vietnam in 1968/9 and a North Vietnamese soldier. It details their
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In Pursuit Of A Dream By Janice Kimball I was a young 59 when I moved from Detroit, Michigan, to Mexico’s central highlands. I bought a house on the outskirts of the town of Chapala and planted a tropical garden. It was the quiet time before they built Soriana, when cows wandering onto the highway,
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Whiskey Dan And The South Seas Princess By Steve Griffin “She’s been around the block,” Whiskey Dan said to his two cronies seated beside him on their bench in the park next to the train depot. He said this in reference to the woman who had just walked by. Davie Lewellyn was only seven and
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Love And The Comforter Conundrum By Bob Faubert Love is eternal, but it finds inventive ways to reveal itself. Not so many years ago when people preferred to shop in malls, a good sale could draw many customers. A comforter sale at the bed-and-bath department in a mall north of Denver was such an
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Crash Course In Life Extension For God’s sake hurry up and do something to stem the slide from cradle to grave. Eat more broccoli shun hotdogs and sweets take vitamins and probiotics pray exercise night and day stretch meditate walk in a pine forest love nurture a cat or orchid use hormones stay sexual
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Revenge is Astonishing By Keira Morgan All my life I have mourned my lack of musical talent. It is particularly galling because my father, sister, and three brothers can all sing. Two play musical instruments. I was the ugly duckling quacking in our family chorus of birdsong. It was the splinter in the sandal
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Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt Living in History There are few times in our own lives when we stop and we think, I’m living in history. In years to come people will ask me, what was it like when . . . My first moment of living in history was when Walter Cronkite
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Venice in a Wheelchair By Libby Colterjohn VENICE! The very name usually conjures up romantic images of beautiful old buildings, gondolas on narrow canals and fine dining under starry skies, but not for me. About three weeks before I was to join a friend Jean, my sister Judy and her husband Robert on a
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