Common Scents Artists to naturegreat odes do compose,like Beethoven’s 6th,everyone knows. I go to the kitchenlook out at the treesI open the windowhear birds, feel the breeze. I sit myself downAt my worn writing desk,sharpen chewed yellow pencils,shred these reams so grotesque. I’m spent to the scrawl.for that immortal phrase.I’ve slowed to a crawlin
Ed. Note: In February 2003, the author visited pre-war Iraq with a women’s delegation. She returned in July 2003, twelve weeks after the U.S.-led invasion, to find the fate of the Iraqis who had touched her so deeply. This is a chapter from her in-progress journalistic memoir. Double-Take By Kelly Hayes-Raitt “Soura” is one
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History 101 Courtesy of Hank Shiver Thomas Paine “History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” —John Adams (1776) “Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and
Ramblings From The Ranch Hundreds of dogs pass through the Ranch’s gates on their way to their forever homes. Each has a tale to tell and this is Jacko’s. A few years before Jacko came to The Ranch in September 2015, when he was about 3 year’s old, he had been found on the
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Members Wanted! The Ajijic Writers Group, founded in 1988, is looking for new members. Two qualifications: an interest in writing and critical thought. No entry fee, no dues, very few rules. We meet the first and third Fridays of each month, 10AM at the New Posada in Ajijic, with luncheon at noon in the
Cucumber By Judy Dykstra-Brown Luckily, my husband had been made weak by his mother and so had little interest in what I was doing or how I had obtained the money to do so. He sat in the shade as he has sat for all of the years we have been married and occasionally
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