Coping Judy Dykstra-Brown When I’m in the mood for moping, with no energy for coping,reticent to kowtow toboss or parent or guru,when I’m feeling less than zealous,down-at-soul, depressed or jealous,concerned with what I seem to lack,I go and lie upon my backin bed or hammock or in poolin water steaming, tepid, cool.The point is getting […]
LIFE ON-GOING: Questions of Conscience By Christy Wisemanchristywiseman@me.com We are now in Fall and the rains have come just as the rain birds promised they would. One year, fortunately an anomaly, was very dry and the lake was down, but Ann Whiting and Aurora Michel, ever the activists for helping us at the lake, brought
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Intrusion And Recovery By Bernie Suttle The pay from my after high-school job delivering furniture for Corben Co. helped me on my way to college. I got to drive the flatbed, Ford delivery truck. At five-three I barely reached the pedals. After two-weeks experience I deemed myself driver and quiet Charles Smith, my six-feet-four-inch classmate
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The Jew’s Betrayal By Herbert W. Piekow In 1580, before the Puritans colonized New England, the Spanish King Philip II appointed Luis de Carvajal governor of all the lands from Tampico to what today includes parts of Texas and New Mexico. Carvajal was a rich, powerful man with royal support; but also with strong,
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Absolution By Armando García-Dávila I drove down the street toward my house after an appointment with my therapist. Would I ever get over my past transgression? I wondered. I sang along with the radio. “Something’s happening here, what it is isn’t exactly clear.” A bright luminous swirling flash dropping from the grey, clouded heavens
THE CAMPFIRE AND THE CLOISTER WALK: A Mystical Episode at Lourdes By Lorin Swinehart The sharp peaks of the Pyrenees stabbed into the crystalline blue heavens on that March day, their snow-capped tips reflecting the bright sun of early spring. The little town of Lourdes basked in the warmth of that alpine sun, the rosy
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The Quest for the Elusive Mung Beans (A Visit to Abastos) By Chuck Bolotin Like an aspiring knight in a medieval fairytale who had been told to bring back the egg of a fire-breathing dragon or a nascent American Indian brave who had been given the task of producing a specific feather from a
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez About Canada and Canadians “When in the hell is that magazine gonna start printing the goddamned truth about the Canadians down here at Lakeside?!” That was the opening line of a rather nauseating encounter I had with an obviously intoxicated man I met many years ago at a Lakeside
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TRAIL OF TEARS–A Tale of Injustice By Robert James Taylor During the winter of 1838-39 the Cherokee Indian Nation was forcibly evicted from their ancestral native lands in northwest Georgia, and it was carried out in such fashion, that would defy the imagination, seen as incomprehensible today: it was undoubtedly one of the worst
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The Cheerleader Who Founded Guadalajara By Herbert W. Piekow Whenever I show off my adopted city I always take my guests to the Plaza de Fundadores, behind the Teatro Degollado, where they see the statues of the two people credited with founding Guadalajara on February 14th, 1542. Nuño de Guzman, originally from Guadalajara, Spain
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