Friendship

Friendship By Kathy Koches   One of my favorite sayings is “A friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a good friend will be sitting there next to you saying “Damn, that was fun!”  Cicero says, “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief” There are

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LINDA BUCKTHORP—“A Woman of Valor”*

LINDA BUCKTHORP—“A Woman of Valor”* By Elsa Wasserman   Today Linda lives in the “house of her dreams” overlooking Ajijic Village, her gardens (mostly desert plants to save water), Lake Chapala and the encircling Sierra Madre Mountains. She journeyed, however, over much difficult terrain to finally reach this place. Seeing Linda for the first time at

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Bones

Bones     Bones betray your perfect skinyour grey-green eyes,your secret smile –always beneath the smilebehind the eyesalways I see the bones. Moments of tendernessmoments of hopesomehow entangle me,though I know this universemust end, and these soft armshide only bones. I throw these words downto be consumed –no sonnet will speak my love,only my sweet

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