PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Center Ten Years ago I meet Bob Hocking. I knew him as the sophisticated, dapper dresser always the correct gentleman, an animal lover and a supporter of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Center. I thought I knew […]
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.” –Epictetus, Greek philosopher Back in the mid-fifties, in the little town in which I grew up in northern Ohio, I read, between novels about Indians in southern Ohio and
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Fake It ‘Til You Make It People often ask me how I can be so upbeat all the time. Like anyone else I also have my ups and downs – the difference is that I do not allow my down times to last long
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling A Primitive Duck Early this year we spent time with birding friends exploring the east end of Lake Chapala for the first time. We followed the Lerma river, driving slowly and stopping every few hundred yards to look for birds. We discovered a pond, with reeds, the only pond
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Joselyn I. Morales Becerra Seen here is one of Niños Incapacitados’ “success stories,” nine-year old Joselyn Morales Becerra. Joselyn is the youngest of three children and lives with them and their mother, Maricela, in Atotonilquillo. The family moved recently from Chapala to Atotonilquillo due to the father’s
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Sloths Could Save Your Life We all know that sloth is one of the seven deadly sins but did you know that a sloth is also an animal with a rather strange appearance? Collectively known as the living sloths, these animals consist of six species from the
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood The Other Europe In 2009 we embarked on an exploration of The Other Europe—Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia, countries along the Lower Danube that had been largely off our radar screens until 1989 as it had taken their Russian ‘liberators’ 45 years to go home.
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Street Dogs We have just been adopted. I know it is rather late in life for such an occurrence. But as is true in most families, there is always room for one more. In this case, we were adopted by a four-legged furry character we named “Bear.” This
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC An Attitude of Gratitude I bet that many of you, like I do, remember being told to eat all the food on your plate so the poor children of someplace-or-other would not starve. While we’ve long since figured out that stuffing our own bellies didn’t
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Have Walker, Will Travel By Mildred Boyd Cuenca, Ecuador Illness is a real bummer when you are on vacation. It took a visit to the Doctor and several gallons of Gatorade before I was able to sit up, take notice and venture out into this new Equatorial world I had come so far to
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