The Death Of John Riley— Revisited (Irish leader of San Patricio Battalion in the Mexican War) By Michael Hogan, Ph.D. John Riley, the twenty-eight year-old Irishman who is credited with organizing the San Patricio Battalion during the Mexican War, has been the subject of much speculation in recent years. Much of it has come […]
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com We Are Stuck In the Past There is lots of talk these days about the polarized political system, particularly in the United States. And this stalemate probably reflects the deep divisions among people about how government should work. Russell Mead, in The American Prospect, has suggested that
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Herself and I recently spent a delightful month in New Zealand, driving through most of that beautiful country from Auckland to Dunedin and Christchurch. Throughout our journey we met only very pleasant, friendly people who made our stay extremely enjoyable. None more so than the folks we
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Joyful MusingsBy Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Living Apart Together Relationships have changed a lot with the times. There was a time when it was a bold step to live with a partner without the blessings and legal sanction of marriage – ‘living in sin’ some called it. Before too long, living together
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Nine Steps To A Happy Life In Mexico By Maggie Van Ostrand Moving to Mexico isn’t a matter of simply relocating to another country with your belongings. No indeedy. Of the many things you might expect to find south of the border, the most important can be Recovery from Cultural Shock. This generally
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Welcome to Mexico!By Victoria Schmidt My Interpretation of Mexican Traffic Patterns On first glance, most of the written Mexican traffic laws are very similar to those of our native countries. But it is the unwritten traffic rules that I have come to understand that are much more important to learn. Stop signs in Mexico seem
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Fleas are athletic prolific vampires The adult dog flea is a wingless insect with a set of powerful hind legs that enables it to jump nine inches straight up or five feet sideways. Like vampires, adult fleas feed only on blood. The flea spends the majority of its life
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Child of the MonthBy Rich Petersen Alexa Cárdenas Reyes This beautiful one-year old little girl is Alexa Cárdenas Reyes. Alexa is the first born (and only) child of Alexandra y Carlos who live in Chapala. You can see in the photo that Alexa’s right eye seems to be missing. Actually, she was born with
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My Carry-On Bag By Loretta Downs We are the best of friends. It began with a blind date that led to a period of ambivalence about the nature of our relationship before we decided to become “just friends.” We have grown closer as we’ve grown older, and after 45 years, we know each other
Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Path of No More Learning” “Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.” These words were written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in Modern Buddhism: The Path of
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