The World of Wine By Ceci Rodriguez California Wine The wine industry in California is very young. In 1769, Spanish missionaries founded their first mission on what is now US soil at San Diego. They brought the Mission grape, which, while it does not produce fine wine, can survive in difficult climates and needs […]
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Kay Davis The MousetrapWritten by Agatha ChristieDirected by Roseann Wilshere Mollie and Giles Ralston have a new hotel, snowed in with five guests. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to warn the group that a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Mrs. Maureen Lyon
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PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Cente Those big brown eyes gazing at you in adoration, the cool, wet nose nudging you to get out of bed in the morning and the never ending wag of the tail that symbolizes the joy of
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch Of Christmases Past Even if every Christmas can’t be perfect, I suspect we all treasure a few very special ones. Here are three of my favorites. I was four years old, and my mom worked in one of the wartime factories. We were looking forward to Grandma’s, where
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “Why not wake up this very moment?” In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, Island, the protagonist Will Farnaby, after being shipwrecked onto the island of Pala (the home of a Utopian community), falls into a sound sleep only to be awakened a few hours later by a
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr New Holiday Traditions I admit that one of the reasons I was eager to move to Mexico was to avoid spending the last two months of the year shopping, decorating, baking, cleaning, polishing, cooking, wrapping, mailing…well, you get the drift. Having come of age in the era
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Make Your New Year’s Resolution a Healthy One! Before you know it, the turkey and trimmings will be nicely settled around your middle – just in time for New Year’s resolutions! If you are content sitting on the couch day after day, occasionally getting
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling Yellow-rumped Warbler Our garden in Ajijic is currently over-run by small birds calling “skwit, skwit, skwit”. These are Yellow-rumped Warblers, so-called because the lower back is yellow, though it is often hidden by the folded wings. They also have distinctive small yellow patches on each side of the breast.
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Nicolás Castro Pacheco This is four-month-old Nicolás Castro Pacheco, in the arms of his mother Maricela. His parents are different from many of the Niños families we help in that they are both university educated and have better-than-average jobs. Why would such a family come to Niños
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger No Hares Here Turtles are found on every continent except Antarctica, living in habitats from the cold North Sea, to arid deserts. Turtles have survived for over 200 million years, and have changed very little. They all have shells, but the shells can vary from being soft
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