“Another Unretired Success” By Joan Meevoy Have you discovered Stones for Ibarra, the lovely little novel by Harriet Doerr? Last summer as I was preparing to move to the Lake area, a friend gave me this bittersweet book, hoping that it would discourage me from moving to Mexico. I read it and cried, because […]
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A Possum Scorned By Libby Colterjohn She visited my husband every evening for about three years as he savoured his Scotch and listened to classical music. I was upstairs reading my book in bed by then, so all was quiet in the house. Mrs. Possie was a large, female possum who lived in the
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: One should always be skeptical of anonymous contributors. Whoever submitted “The History of the Middle Finger” for your consideration is likely laughing their anonymous ass off after seeing it in print. I would have expected someone on your staff to do some very basic fact checking before publishing
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He’s Coming To Get Me By Bernie Suttle I know who he is and how he’s coming. I don’t know what to do ‘til then. My bedroom, an afterthought add-on, is separated from the real house by a closed door. I sleep alone in my youth bed with my stories, hopes and fears my
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Confessions Of A Bibliophile By Steve Griffen Without books, I could not have survived. I would surely have been locked away as a danger to myself and others. In my padded cell, I’m sure I would have howled endlessly and ripped my own flesh. When I was too young for school, the only book
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Goodbye Christmas By Gabrielle BlairJanuary 31, 2018 Hiking up the mountain on the Tepalo Waterfall route, one bright early December morning, three young Mexicans passed me on their way down. They were carrying a large, leafless branch that they had hacked off a dead tree. This was to be their Christmas tree. Ours was
Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt (A True Story) There but For The Grace of God Go I I see him every single day walking down one side of the careterra or the other. He is always in motion, with a sort of awkward gait that is punctuated as he limps as he places
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson At the duplicate bridge table, it is often advantageous to know the habits of your adversaries in order to garner the maximum number of tricks. In this month’s hand played in a Toronto area bridge club, West was a notoriously light opener who often rushed in where
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “The Last Generation” Adam and Eve were the “last generation” to live in a world without “things”…shoes, for example, and Chinese food, or books (including The Bible), children, spoons, or Salma Hayek, clocks, exotic lingerie…or cities, or towns, or villages, or even families…in short, they were the
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HIGH NOON – And the Hollywood Blacklist By Robert James Taylor High Noon, one of the most beloved and iconic Westerns of all time, now over 60 years old, earned its place in history by portraying one of the most human dilemmas: caught in a struggle of conscience and desire the triumph of the
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