THE MAGIC OF ZACATECAS By Harriet Hart Sunday morning when we pulled up to the Pemex on the lakeside libramiento there was already a line up of three circus trucks containing one lama, two tigers and a lion cub. Was this a sign that today’s trip to Zacatecas was going to take a bizarre
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Life Under the Mango Tree One of the selling points used in discussions about moving to Mexico was the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables year round. This is a big deal when you’ve lived your entire life in a northern climate where the growing season is only
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “The years thunder by, the dreams of our youth grow dim….” I have talked with many people in Western Mexico in recent months who have told me that much, and in a few cases most, of their (usually) modest wealth, in only a few hair-raising months,
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Wildlife Mexico 911 Like many others we find ourselves needing to cut back on the services we offer. We often joke and say we’re retired, but we are busier than ever, the only thing that retired was the paycheck. With cost increasing for gas, food, medical care
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood America Rejoins The World One cannot write objectively on world affairs without commenting on the often negative role America has played on the world stage. But Obama’s America now seeks to constructively re-engage with that world. Climate Change. Over the years I have repeatedly stressed the need
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Wouldn’t a Do-Over Be Nice? My son’s favorite books when he was young were those in a series called Choose Your Own Adventure. These action-packed stories gave the reader numerous opportunities to decide what happens next. You start reading, and at the end of a
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Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Leaving a Legacy On TV recently, a sweet bright young thing got a glowing look on her face and said that when the earliest known great natural disaster wiped out all life on earth, it was only 150 million years before life appeared again. She seemed cheered
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer When Expert Opinion is Questionable I recently encountered a medical challenge which caused me, for a time, to commit a common oversimplification error, appeal to authority. Let me explain. One day, while my wife was back in the United States, I was struck by a headache, which worsened
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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. One of the challenges of
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand John Steinbeck penned his famous book, Tortilla Flat, in 1935, and apparently never considered Hollywood’s casting choices when it was made into a film in 1942. If he had, he would’ve fallen flat himself, either from laughing or from astonishment. Steinbeck’s classic is the sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant story
