A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Reprinted by Permissionof Maggie Van Ostrand Ed. Note: As with the late Mildred Boyd, it seems our readers do not want to let go of Maggie so we plan to indefinitely run some of the columns she wrote for us several years ago. Dear Dr. Freud, […]
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Editor’s PageBy Alejandro Grattan-DominguezThe Church at the Crossroads For more than three decades, the Catholic Church has been battered by scandals, many having to do with child-molestation offences—but not all. The full extent of some of the other problems was outlined in a book called In God’s Name, which was written by David A. Yallop,
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com May 2010 How we read books is changing these days. The latest are the ebook readers, the most popular being the Amazon Kindle and recently released Apple iPad. You can even download these electronic books and read them on your PC w
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FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo” I have a confession to make. I have never read ‘War and Peace’. I have never read ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. I have never read ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’. Don’t you think that retirement in Mexico, with its de rigeur daily siesta and the open hole
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“Goons In Suits” By Fred Mittag The Mexican government issued a traveler’s warning to Mexicans not to go to Arizona because of the new immigration law. Boycotts threaten the city of Phoenix alone with a loss of $90 million dollars. But cries of racial profiling have been stoutly denied, although not uniformly. Governor Jan Brewer
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THE DANCING BULL By Bob Tennison Ferdinand, Ferdinand, the bull with the delicate ego,Ferdinand, Ferdinand, the heifers all called him Amigo.Ferdinand, Ferdinand, he’d curtsy and be very polite.Well, he learned how to tango and dance the fandango,But, he never would learn how to fight. His mother, Carmen Bull, knew he was different, but she
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art the dog guy I t’s said that the only thing two dog trainers can agree on is that the third guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That being the case let me share with you some of the basics that work for me These are four
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MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE, WHO? By Roger Johnson Politicians are clamoring to tell us how we need to change the way we are being governed and that we should pick them because they know how to do it. It’s not of course just a United States problem. Just what is a good country?
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The Right To Die By Rosemary Dineen It’s alright to die Bodies come and bodies go It’s alright to die It just might make you feel better ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We whine and grouse, fuss and fret Stretching, exercising, yogaing and yet Why don’t we just kick back, relax Let it happen, yes own Death.
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The Israeli Side By Peter Rosenberg This is a direct dispute to the article written by Bob Harwood on The Israeli Palestinian Conflict that was published in the Ojo, April issue. He claims that people are scared to critique Israel as it may be deemed anti-Semitism but that is exactly what his preposterous story
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