The Wild Flower By Armando Garcia It doesn’t grow in greenhouses, nurseries, or tended gardens, and survives on but a single season of rain. Borne of hardship it is tempered and thrives where the less hardy wither away. The wildflower seed migrates riding the wind, the wind that recognizes no borders. When in foul […]
Willow, Weep Not For Me By Kathy Koches Whispers in the wind serenaded me as I sat and watched the branches swirl and undulate in Nature’s dance. I breathed in peace and tranquility as I sat enjoying just being in the moment. For the last two weeks of my recovery from knee surgery up
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Old Sayings Still True Today * Illegal aliens have always been a problem. Ask any American Indian. (Robert Orben)* You’ve always made a mistake of being yourself. (Eugene Ionesco)* Water and words – Simple to pour, but impossible to recover once poured.* People are only influenced in the direction they want to go.* I have
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Work Week By Judy Dykstra-Brown Monday The day’s become unravelled. The night’s begun to fall, yet I’ve not accomplished anything. I’ve done nothing at all except cooking a curry and writing several drafts of poems still uncompleted–they’re bobbing here like rafts afloat upon my consciousness but have nowhere to go. The words all came so quickly, but their
The Kings Of Kallstadt — My Village, Ketchup And The Prince Of New York By Karl Holman This is the title and subtitle of a 2014 German film by Simone Wendel, which was classified as comedy. Where the hell his Kallstadt and who on earth are its “kings?” I visited the village last June
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Memories Begone! By Sue Schools I’m a genetic collector, daughter of a notorious hoarder and granddaughter of a survivor of the Great Depression who believed in her later years that two of everything still wasn’t enough. When Grannie went to the Big Warehouse in the Sky, my mother packed her sedan with boxes of treasures
LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com November 2017 KNOW YOUR FOLK ART The annual Feria Maestros del Arte will happen again on November 10 and 11 (10 am to 5 pm) and November 12 (10 am to 4 pm). It’s held at the Club de Yates de Chapala. Admission is 70 pesos.
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Strong Women By Kathy Koches “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt Yesterday I got an e-mail from my eldest granddaughter. She gave me news that was both sad and encouraging. She had left her abusive husband, after seven years
I Can See Russia From My Stateroom By Carol L. Bowman Part One As the Azamara Journey navigated through the Gulf of Finland, I stood on our veranda and fidgeted with binoculars. For the past six months, ‘Russia’ had spurred an onslaught of negative press in the US, but I felt a surge of positive
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Cop Or Otherwise? By Bernie Suttle “Get into the car, Son. Hitchhiking is against the law in Pasadena.” He leaned over and opened the passenger door. I had to get through the town to get to the freeway entrance and hoped to get a ride with a car headed for LA on that same route.
