OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Oh, It’s Hard To Be Humble Have you ever had the feeling that the words in the song described you? What song you ask? “Oh, it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.” I’ve been there a few times… not often but, to be […]
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger As many of us have found out the hard way, a scorpion sting is painful, to say the least. However, scorpion venom may be used as an alternative to dangerous and addictive painkillers like morphine, according to researchers. Scientists are investigating new ways for developing a novel
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Ask Carolyn By Carolyn Comedo DEAR CAROLYN: To say my husband snores is an understatement. He simultaneously sounds like a motorcycle, a runaway train, a fighter jet in full flight and a tom cat in heat. All the while he whistles, moans, groans, jerks, mumbles and grinds his teeth. I’ve tried everything but nothing
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC The Eternal Maternal Legacy As May arrives and brings another Mother’s Day, I’d like to send a thank you to all the mothers in the world for helping to provide a steady stream of therapy clients. The mother-child relationship is powerful for both daughters and
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer What’s Right? What’s Wrong? Here is a famous ethical dilemma: A shipwrecked crew is stranded on a deserted island with limited food and drinkable water. They must strictly ration them to assure that they survive long enough to be rescued. As a group, they decide that if anyone
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Reprinted by Permissionof Maggie Van Ostrand Ed. Note: As with the late Mildred Boyd, it seems our readers do not want to let go of Maggie so we plan to indefinitely run some of the columns she wrote for us several years ago. Dear Dr. Freud,
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Editor’s PageBy Alejandro Grattan-DominguezThe Church at the Crossroads For more than three decades, the Catholic Church has been battered by scandals, many having to do with child-molestation offences—but not all. The full extent of some of the other problems was outlined in a book called In God’s Name, which was written by David A. Yallop,
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com May 2010 How we read books is changing these days. The latest are the ebook readers, the most popular being the Amazon Kindle and recently released Apple iPad. You can even download these electronic books and read them on your PC w
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FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo” I have a confession to make. I have never read ‘War and Peace’. I have never read ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. I have never read ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’. Don’t you think that retirement in Mexico, with its de rigeur daily siesta and the open hole
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“Goons In Suits” By Fred Mittag The Mexican government issued a traveler’s warning to Mexicans not to go to Arizona because of the new immigration law. Boycotts threaten the city of Phoenix alone with a loss of $90 million dollars. But cries of racial profiling have been stoutly denied, although not uniformly. Governor Jan Brewer
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