Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Business Hours The handwritten sign on the door says “Cerrado.” Sometimes there is no sign at all. Many stores, restaurants, and other businesses here have posted hours, but that seems to be all for show. When I first moved to Mexico, shopping sometimes seemed an insurmountable challenge. I […]
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Paths of Empowerment There are more paths to sobriety than I have fingers to count them on, and comments I’ve received recently tell me there is great interest in alternatives to the traditional Alcoholics Anonymous program. One of my favorites is the “New Life” Program
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes The Power Of Appreciation “Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” Albert Schweitzer: With the Holidays fast approaching, I’d like to
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer The Devil Is in What We Take for Granted! Assumptions get a bad rap. How many times have you heard the admonition, “Don’t assume anything?” When we make assumptions, the thinking goes, we are liable to leave important things undone or, worse, not anticipate troublesome complications. You may have
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Among the many decisions made at the duplicate bridge table, adjusting your bidding in accordance with how well (or badly!) your game is going is sometimes among them. In a club game at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club, after three passes, herself, sitting South, opened the
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Op-EdBy Maggie Van OstrandThe Crookedest Christmas Tree There’s something obscene with spending so much money at Christmastime. It’s not like we’re the Three Wise Men hiking across the desert to gift the baby Jesus. I don’t even know what frankincense is, let alone myrrh. So let’s get down to the important stuff, like the Christmas
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Editor’s PageBy Alejandro GrattanRemembering A Christmas Past—and Ray Rigby For those unfamiliar with Ray’s background, he had served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa during World War II. Later, using his wartime adventures as an anvil, he hammered out a novel called The Hill. His screen-play of the same story starred Sean Connery,
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The Olive Trees Of Tzintzuntzan Gnarled stumps of ancient trees posture throughout the monastic atrium like fat robed friars discussing the care of the recently conquered Purepecha. This is the grove of Spanish monks consigned to a mission an ocean away, who simply wrote home for their favorite food, of which there was none
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FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo” Men don’t like me. I know, I know. I shouldn’t say it. Thoughts are things. The Laws of Attraction tell us that what we say goes, but only for the person saying it. So, by openly stating what I have long suspected to be the truth, am
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WHAT, ME WORRY JUST BECAUSE *CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. * Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama Administration aren’t paying their taxes. * HotWheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM. * Obama met with small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer and Citigroup. * McDonald’s
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