SUMMER IN SAN BLAS By William Haydon Was I prepared for my first summer in Mexico? As the season draws to a close, I think I can reasonably conclude that the answer to that question is probably no. I can only blame myself for this, because in retrospect I can see that the clues
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Some Americans, especially Democrats, may have thought that the hypocrisy of the Bush administration—epitomized by the famous “Mission Accomplished” banner before the fighting in Iraq intensified—could not be surpassed. But Obama has done it! By reducing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to “only” 50,000 and relabeling them “non-combat” (they
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MEXICAN DAZE:Sennacherib, the Alpha Humming-bird. By Iris Slocombe Alpha humming-bird? Do humming-birds have a ‘pecking order’? We would have thought not before we encountered the bird we named “Sennacherib” after the vicious king of Assyria who “swept down like a wolf” on the Israelites, as recorded in the second book of Kings in the
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Elizabeth Has An Adventure By Lady Tad FlemmingReviewed by Pat Percival This is a children’s fantasy story about a young girl with time on her hands. Written and illustrated by Lady Flemming in both English and Spanish, it is an ideal gift for a child of any age, especially those between 4 and 12.
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Pancho Villa’s Granddaughter Fiction by James Tipton Immediately after Ethel Chestnut chucked her old resources administrator job in Chicago, she began to sell almost everything. A few short weeks later she jumped on a plane and headed to the tropical mountains of southern Mexico, to Chapala, near Mexico’s largest lake, Lago de Chapala. Ethel
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD ACCOUNTANTS (Part One) By RM Krakoff Donald Parker kneels behind cases of Zingers, sweat rolling off his face, hiding from security guards and hears police sirens. He’s fearful of being caught but more concerned about having a heart attack and dying like this…hiding from cops in the Topeka Dolly Madison
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood The American Dream What happened to The American Dream, the dream that brought immigrants from every corner of the globe past the welcoming Statue of Liberty to a new life in the New World? They came to escape poverty or oppression in their countries of origin. They
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hess “Beware a silent man and a dog who doesn’t bark.” (old quote) Many dogs bark. It’s the when, where, and how much that presents problems. Before we can address the problem of barking we have to look at why the dog barks. We have many breeds
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. VITAMIN D–The Sunshine Vitamin! “Can you imagine what would happen if a drug company came out with a single pill that reduces the risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis, PMS, SAD, and various autoimmune disorders? There would be a media frenzy the likes
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen José Guadalupe Macías Yáñez Meet 6-1/2 year old José Guadalupe Macías Yáñez. Jose Guadalupe lives in San Juan Cosalá and is the youngest of four children. His mother Silvia is a housewife and his father Marco Antonio works in construction. José Guadalupe was born with myelodysplastic syndrome,
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