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Driving to Newfoundland By Neil McKinnon The dream had come true. We were retired, the kids were gone, the condo sold, our furniture in storage and we had a new-used camper van. Our leisure years would be spent savoring the delights of the open road—the first delight, a summer-long excursion across Canada ending in Newfoundland.

Guadalupe Victoria By David Ellison Guadalupe Victoria’s story is one of redemption. Born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, during the war he changed his name to Guadalupe Victoria to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, the insurgency’s symbol and patron, and to commit himself to winning independence for Mexico. He announced, “La Independencia se

Bad News-Good News By Sydney Gay Kislevitz   For the last fifteen years in Ajijic people ask me what happened to your leg? Why do you need crutches? By the time I was forty-five years old I had had two bone transplants, involving twelve surgeons and eight surgeries that failed, and this was happening in

Word Salad By Sally Asante Crazy English [Directory blurb: More of the burning questions raised by our crazy English language.]   In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand? Why do they call them apartments when they’re all together? Why do we call them buildings when they’re

LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 April 2021   “…who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” — Hunter S. Thompson The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering

Just One More Temple, Papa By Carol L. Bowman Day One   Our English-speaking guide, 28-year-old Hang Hak, first name, last in Cambodian language, bowed reverently in Buddhist tradition to his elders, my husband, Ernie, and me. Along with our tuk-tuk driver, Yang Chan, we set off on our private, two-day exploration of ancient Buddhist

“To Promote the General Welfare” By Fred Mittag   People who have the facts, know the science, and think critically, should come up with the same conclusions. That’s the purpose of peer review. If other scientists can’t replicate an experiment, then it cannot be valid. The scientific method should also apply to social problems and

Pseudo Sex By Lillian Norma Sookdeosingh   A story from my camino blog. So there we were at the end of our seven-week-long trek across the top of Spain on El Camino Frances. Religious and nonreligious pilgrims alike travel this revered path annually. And now ours had ended in Santiago de Compostela. Ended here at

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com     What a difference a Month makes! Last month’s article regarding portable toilets for the congested areas of Tepehua, where the inhabitants have no toilets and have to use open defecation, minimized a massive problem that has since driven the Tepehua Team

The Anna Matilda Whistler Fan Club, Lakeside Chapter How to Celebrate Your 76th Birthday By Don Beaudreau   Having recently celebrated my 76th birthday, at Lakeside, and suffering an identity crisis because of it, I decided I had to do something to save my self-worth. So naturally, I decided to create a fan club for