Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC One Breath at a Time There’s probably not a person alive who isn’t familiar with AA and the 12-step program. It’s been around since 1935 and has been phenomenal in its success, helping millions of alcoholics and addicts achieve and maintain sobriety. Some people, however, […]
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Lessons From Chickens Sometimes, on our journey in life, we come upon stories that really tickle our fancy. Usually we laugh and by the next day the story is mostly forgotten. Once in a while—for some reason—one such story just will not go away and stays with
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr The Annual Harvest Fair I see another stockade of slurs has been launched against the likes of famed Hollywood sceenwriter Bud Schulberg and the world-class director Elia Kazan. Even in death these immensely talented individuals are allowed no peace from demeaning and denigrating insults. Schulberg and Kazan
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer What You Think You Heard Me Say May Not Be Exactly What I Meant! How often have you said something which you thought was perfectly clear, only to discover that your listener misunderstood. I remember when my daughter was a teenager, we were resisting putting specific time limits
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson While learning the rudiments of bridge, one of the first “rules” that makes a big impression on most players is that you should lead a singleton against suit contracts in the hope that partner can win an early trick and give you one or more ruffs. With
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Milo Valenzuela Mexico has produced many famous sports figures, either born in Mexico, or born to Mexican parents. I’m talking about legendary sportsmen, like champion golfer Lee Treviño; tennis whiz Pancho Gonzalez; boxer Oscar de la Hoya; Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela; futbol star Cuauhtemoc Blanco, and Major Leaguer Jorge
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Editor’s PageGUEST EDITORIALBy Fred Mittag“Battlefield America” Americans—20 thousand of them—die each year because they don’t have access to healthcare. This is morally unacceptable. Zarathustra taught 3,000 years ago that the world is a battlefield between Good and Evil, and that we must choose sides, a belief adopted by Judaism and Christianity. Amen. All the western democracies, save
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: When President Obama attempted to bring the 2016 Olympics to the United States he failed and many Republicans cheered. When, on the other hand, the president successfully brought the highly prestigious Nobel Peace prize to the United States, these same people did not cheer. The test of their
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ESPAÑOL—Gringo-Style By Margie Harrell Like most ex-pats when they first arrive at Lakeside, I decided to sign up for some Spanish lessons, fully expecting to master the language in a few short weeks and move on to something more challenging, like salsa dancing. As I began to get the hang of things I wondered
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THE LITTLE PEOPLE By Bob Tennison “Good morning. This is your five-thirty wake-up call. The temperature is twenty-five with light snow flurries.” I glanced at the other bed. It was empty. Jumping up, I saw that my luggage was gone—my new clothes and gifts for my family in Houston where I was headed for
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