Hands Like Eyes By W. Burns Taylor (Ed. Note: Burns teaches blind children to use a Braille laptop computer like his own.) In the country of the blind it was the feeling hands the most. Like spiders with thick legs They crawled into all the secret nooks and crannies, forcing intimacy upon strangers. They rubbed […]
Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com April 2010 Events are listed by date, like a calendar: past events, then those planned for the future. Some organizations offer multiple events, and these items appear toward the end of the column. February 25 Sol y Luna showed artwork of photography,
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Paraprosdokian! A paraprosdokian sentence consists of two parts, where the first is a figure of speech and the second an intriguing variation of the first. They’re used typically for humorous or dramatic effect. * Never argue with an idiot. He’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. * Going to
Ask Carolyn By Carolyn Comedo DEAR CAROLYN: I confessed to Father Gregory that I indulge in what he calls the solitary vice. He said it was the most destructive pastime ever practised by sinful man and precipitates warts, blindness, impotence, sterility, heart disease, deafness, and cancer. I’m twenty-eight and according to Father Gregory I
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling Canyon Towhee The canyon towhee is a largish sparrow that is a fairly common resident around Lake Chapala, but it is not often recognized because it is so plain-Jane. You will see this bird most often on your lawn first thing in the morning looking for seeds and insects
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KELLY HAYES-RAITT—Whose License Plate Says “Dosmthn” By Margaret Van Every Kelly Hayes-Raitt shares an ice cream with Nebras, an Iraqi beggar she met before the US-led invasion and found again in a Baghdad market four months after the war started. Photo by Yosiko Robinson Kelly Hayes-Raitt has briefly come to roost Lakeside while she
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The World of Wine By Ceci Rodriguez The Price Of A Wine How much should you have to pay for a specific wine? It depends on your disposable income and, especially, on what gives you pleasure. It is important to remember that good quality wines exist at all levels. It is not a monopoly
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Child of the Month By Rich Petersen María Fernanda Aimar Obregón This angelic face belongs to 13-year old María Fernanda Aimar Obregón. Fernanda lives in Ajijic with her younger sister and her father, Sergio, who is a stained glass artist. Sergio is a single Dad, raising his two daughters on his own and doing
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This World Of Ours By Bob Harwoodbharwoodb@hotmail.com My Vision For Canada Canada’s fourth election in seven years transformed the political landscape. Conservatives won 54% of the seats to form a majority. New Democrats won 33% and Liberals plummeted to less than 19%. The Bloc Quebecois fell from 40 to just 4 seats and the
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Radiation Tour Of Japan By J. C. Kottler Ann Coulter, right-wing provocateur, assures us that radiation is good for your health. She writes, “…anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.” This gave me a wonderful idea for a business opportunity– the first
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