FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIRBy Consuelo I wonder if my mother wanted the same thing I grew up to want, a quiet place of my own. Books, paints and travel. I know she loved armchair travel as much as I do. Shelves and shelves of books were our company. So I have reading to […]
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My Plan To Save the World By David Harper It came to me as I was watching the Winter Olympics. A newscaster appeared on the screen to tell me that I should not worry because they had a helicopter on the way to cover a shooting that had just occurred in Tacoma. All I
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohrrobmohr@gmail.com Original Art Work and Reproductions: The New Reality Providence on occasion juxtaposes realities in ways that enable unusual insight. Such is the case when the new Art House Gallery in Chapala, which features Giclée oil reproductions of works by local artists, invited gifted artist Dan Noll to have
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A MAN CALLED BENITO By Dave Gutk At the age of thirteen Benito left the field and walked to Oaxaca where he found work as a domestic servant in the household of Don Antonio Maza, who also employed his sister. Don Antonio, impressed by Benito’s quick intelligence and desire to learn, became interested in his development. His friend Antonio
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Sins of Our Fathers By Scott Richards Mankind’s unfathomable ability to consume, destroy, endanger and control his entire environment has fascinated and saddened me from childhood. As we unconscionably harvest the Earths resources to the brink of extinction and beyond in our congenital belief of self-entitlement, ignoring the billions of inhabitants of this planet
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Wherefore Art Thou, Grandma Minnie? By Bob Tennison At a church function in DalIas, a friend asked me if I had made up my mind about moving to Mexico. At that time I was still undecided. He went on to tell me about their trip to Copper Canyon, when his wife and he took
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com June 2011 PAST EVENTS: At the Community Awards ceremony May 3, Chapala Police Chief Reynol Contreras was honored for his unstinting dedication to the job even following a criminal attack on his home, and consequently, his family (See this month’s centerfold). A
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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD By Carol L. Bowman Part Three—From Land to SeaTorre del Paine to Punta Arenas As our bus climbed in elevation, the Andean peaks enveloped us on all sides. The flatness and stark emptiness of the Patagonian steppes gave way to Beech tree forests of Chile’s Torre del
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UP-DATES FROM THE ANIMAL SHELTER By Thetis Reeves We dropped by the Shelter dog center the other day to see how Bingo was faring these days now that Chester, his long-time room-mate, finally got adopted a while ago. Chester held the record of being in residence for 359 days before going off to a
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The Continuing Adventures of Mildred and Suzette… By Katie B. Goode Don’t Call Me M’am “Good afternoon, m’am,” Eduardo said, proud of his new English greeting. “Eduardo!” Mildred said, desperately trying to hide the twitch at the corners of her mouth with a smile. “Su ingles es muy bien,” said Suzette. “Except for the
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