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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Have you Ever? By Chuck Poulsen Have you ever had your email account so badly corrupted that it was shut down permanently? Are you out of therapy yet? Where are you in the anger management part? I’ll say just this about storing all your email documents in the email cloud, thinking they will always
Carmageddon By Michael McLaughlin Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone They paved paradise Put up a parking lot —Joni Mitchell The biggest threat to our little fishing village way of life is not the cartels, break-ins or plagues. It is the automobile. Now, the bad
Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Vying For The Needle The race is on! Our salvation, inoculation with the COVID-19 vaccine, has finally come. After ten months of quarantine, one of the weirdest chapters in my life, there is hope for a future. Of course, it has become political. Damn politics, inserting itself in
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Words Of Thanks To The Ojo Rob Mohr For many years my columns in the Ojo del Lago, Focus on Art and Mirror to the Universe, have been an essential part of my life in Mexico. My February 2021 column will be my last offering of Mirror to the Universe. My hope is that
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