Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC What’s the Big Deal? It’s Just a Dog… Sadly, there’s frequently a lack of real understanding from family or friends when it comes to losing a pet. “What’s the big deal?” they say, and then suggest you go to the shelter and get a new one […]
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer A Simple Life One of the reasons we, and I imagine many others, decided to leave the US or Canada and settle in Mexico is because we wanted to simplify our lives. Certainly, contemporary life, particularly in Western culture, is busy, complicated and stressful. Many of us balanced
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Sometimes, despite holding a wealth of high cards, you will reach a slam and when dummy comes down you will see no clear way to making your contract. Such was the case when this hand was played in a match-point duplicate event. South began proceedings with 2
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After-School Artists – The Children of Ajijic Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Painting the village of Ajijic provides the visual artist an incredible range of colors and textures in the natural world – pungent reds, a range of blues, pale purples, brilliant yellows – seen against an unending array of textures: broad fronds,
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Garbage Truck We really waste a lot of time worrying when it is really just that: a waste of time. A lot of our worries are about things that actually never happen, and many more of our worries are about things we can’t do anything about. Seems
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The Auditorio Improvement Project By Harriet Hart The Auditorio de la Ribera is like an old friend – she’s always been there for us when we need her, so we may have started to take her for granted. Friendships need work. The Auditorio does, too. She is now 35 years old and although
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag A Brief History of Work For artisans, work was good during the Middle Ages. At 14, a boy might proudly be apprenticed to a master craftsman. By 21, he was called a journeyman, and finally became a master. They belonged to trade guilds, to which they paid
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The Vagabond By Jay Raymond White There’s a highway bridge over the Devils River on the outskirts of Sonora, Texas, where I and my cousin Butch used to hide out to smoke cigarettes. One day after school, we ducked under the bridge and came upon a vagabond Mexican so filthy we thought at first
The Tire Iron and the Tamal By Justin Horner During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They all happened while I was driving other people’s cars, which for some reason makes it worse on an emotional
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Night And Bray By Beth Burube I first saw them ten months ago. If not for the trickle of light spilling from a waning moon, they would have escaped my notice altogether. Their bodies were ghostly silhouettes, but I could see his lips resting on her neck and they had no regard of
