Mexico is the land of religious celebrations. For the past 500 years, few months have passed without a festival that honors a Catholic saint or event as loud booms of cohetes explode into the sky to announce the celebration. In December, they Celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe. Standing on the stone steps at the entrance […]
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Slow Your Roll Let us all stop and take a deep breath. The entire world is going through monumental changes. And we all must stop. Take in a long breath and take a deep breath. The events in the world have gotten more hectic since January as the man who now occupies the position of
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This month we feature the poetry of local poet Judy Dykstra-Brown. Judy Dykstra-Brown moved to San Juan Cosala in 2001. The Tennessee Writers Alliance National Poetry Award’s first place winner in 2002, for the past nine years, she has published a minimum of one poem a day on her blog at https://judydykstrabrown.com/ Her books include
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Ann Whiting started the Mexican National Chili Cookoff in 1978, and I first flew down from Dallas, TX in February of 1997 to compete with the elite cooks from all over the United States. That year it was held in the Ajijic Soccer Field, adjacent to the Wednesday Market. Twenty cooks competed on Friday, February
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Edward Duffy was a man of habit. Ed worked at the old Chicago Public Library. Ed traveled in and out of the city by way of train. For twenty years now, he would rise early. Then after a full day of work he would return to the station and arrive back in Harvard where he
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When I was ten years old my mother announced that she and I were going to California to visit cousins. We lived on a prairie farm in Manitoba and the farthest I’d ever travelled was to Winnipeg, thirty miles north on Highway 75. My parents never took vacations so how this came about was a
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By Mark Sconce John F. Kenney’s entreaty, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country,” inspired a generation of young idealists determined to represent America abroad through volunteer service. One of these was the author, Mark Sconce, who joined the Peace Corps, the world service
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