Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Shopping and the Pursuit of Happiness Iam writing this month’s column during my annual family visit in Oregon. During the weeks I’ve been here, I’ve repeatedly felt overwhelmed by the quantities of “stuff” I see everywhere. Warehouse stores, malls, aisle after aisle of floor-to-ceiling shelves […]
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Ethical Thinking in the Real World If you’ve been reading this column, you will recall that I have been examining various frameworks of ethical thinking by looking at how we might respond to hypothetical ethical dilemmas. Dilemmas are good for discussing ethics because they give us very limited
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ALL ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT By Dr. Todd Stong Worldwide Domestic Water Across the world, half of the available “fresh water” is being consumed, that’s 1% of the world’s total water not in the ocean or in ice masses. The challenge at this time is that major populations are no longer developing where the fresh
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Defense is justifiably considered to be the most difficult part of bridge. Whereas declarers have the benefit of seeing all their side’s assets as they attempt to make their contracts, defenders must struggle with only certain knowledge of half their combined holdings. It would definitely make life
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Bosom Buddies It doesn’t matter whether you’re a working woman toiling amidst the trauma and traffic of the U.S.A., or a retired woman living amidst the smiles and sunsets of Mexico, you need a bosom buddy. Qualified to fill this time-honored category would be other women,
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan MARK TWAIN—The Compassionate Cynic The world recently commemorated the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. Unlike the reputation of other once-celebrated American writers, the passage of time has only added luster to his place in history—both as a writer as well as a man. During a period when even
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com August 2010 PAST EVENTS: Throughout July, the old Train Station in Chapala (Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo) has displayed trains of World War II. The display included photos and models, some familiar in appearance and some European models that reflected the Art Deco
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I have spent years reading Paul Jackson’s column (“Thunder on the Right”) and there have been times I’ve agreed with him, and times I think he’s missed the mark, but after his column in the August Ojo del Lago, I’m beginning to think he’s just lost his marbles.
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach DunstanA Book Review by Victoria Schmidt Joyful Musings is a collection of vignettes from the life of Lakeside author Joy Birnbach Dunstan, whose column of the same name appears each month in the Ojo del Lago. Subtitled “Growing up, self-discovery and reflections on life north & south of the
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ULYSSES S. GRANT—An Under-Appreciated Hero By David A. Harper Alejandro Grattan’s editorial (Ojo-August issue) on Mark Twain reminded me it was Twain who personally arranged for the publishing of Grant’s memoirs on terms so favorable to Grant and his family as to allow them to live well long after his death. Ulysses S. Grant
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