THREE PLACES AT ONCE —Or Be Careful What You Wish For! By Julie Elizabeth Mignard The soft ruffle of silk lay gleaming across Bettylou’s wrinkled palm. It was three things at once. “If only I could be three things at once,” she was thinking. It was a lovely lavender blue, periwinkle maybe, and wherever the
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Grandma’s Last Christmas Something took apart my beanie, ripping every seam, stealing my favorite panel for its evil scheme. Dad’s boxers and Mom’s flowered blouse likewise disappeared. Our baby sister’s blankie the next thing commandeered. Mother’s apron, then a snip from her wedding dress, taken from an inner seam, so who would ever guess?
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Friends And Flowers A withered bloom, a fallen petal, a bye-gone delight of luminous color, once brightly shone under Southern skies, radiant ‘neath the warming comfort of the sun’s rays. Now its glory is dimmed by time, as seasons come, fade away, thus beckoning the chill of winter’s night, ‘til Spring ushers in a
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Some Commandments of Getting Older Courtesy of Christy Wiseman #1 – Talk to yourself, because there are times you need expert advice.#2 – Consider “In Style” to be the clothes that still fit.#3 – You don’t need anger management. You need people to stop being idiots.#4 – Your people skills are just fine. It’s
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Reflections On A Christmas Eve Some nights are like this, a glass of burgundy,candles permeating the air with lavender, a subtlenostalgia for having passed this way.I look out into the darkness, and it makes itself at home. The window on this world I am reflecting onis made of lace, from which I do not
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The Artistic Clay Of Tonala By Annonymous All over México it is possible to find artistic clay pieces, either utilitarian or decorative. Tonalá is probably the most artistic center of the whole country, where beautiful pieces have been made for centuries. The polished pottery produced in Tonalá today has its roots in pre-Hispanic cultures,
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RON NAPIER (1921-2019) —A Long and Joyful Life From interviews with Margaret Van Every during the spring of 2019 Last February some 20 celebrants gathered to pay tribute to a beloved friend with champagne, fine wines, hors d’oeuvres, and two cakes—one a rich, creamy tiramisu, the other a vegan concoction special ordered for the
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Find Feathered Friends By Allen C. Turner and Judy Boyd—Field Ornithologists Mockingbirds: Pirates of the High Cs “Tra la la, tweedle dee dee dee It gives me a thrill To wake up in the morning To the mockingbird’s trill … On Mockingbird Hill” —Vaughn Horton Gray with two white wing-bars, the Northern Mockingbird is
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Graduation Highlights On August 16th, 2019, after intense study and practice in the Hotel & Hospitality Management Academic program our proud graduates will look forward to a life that has benefited from the experience of Jaltepec, the support of parents and for some, special sponsors. On Graduation Day, in addition to family members,
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Our Great Heart when we hear of those who do not recognize the face they hate as their own then we must hold them we must hold ourselves we must hold each other we must have a Great Heart a heart greater than the fear there are so many stories past telling so much
