Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Be Prepared As retirees, we’ve reached one very uncomfortable stage in our lives. Our friends are becoming seriously ill, and they are dying. I’ve lost several friends this past year. I remember my grandmother talking to me about this stage in her life. It was the time when […]
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “If you love someone….” Lebanese-American writer and artist Khalil Gibran is largely remembered for The Prophet (1923), one of the best selling works of the 20th century. This collection of 26 inspirational and poetic essays became one of the guiding lights of the 1960s revolution that
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THIS WORLD OF OURS By Bob Harwood People Power Goes Global With Information Age, instant communication People Power has been unleashed at a pace and on a scale never before experienced. Some of the factors at play are lack of freedom, corruption, obscene economic contrasts, soaring food costs and rising unemployment. Entrenched Arab
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC What’s the Big Deal? It’s Just a Dog… Sadly, there’s frequently a lack of real understanding from family or friends when it comes to losing a pet. “What’s the big deal?” they say, and then suggest you go to the shelter and get a new one
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer A Simple Life One of the reasons we, and I imagine many others, decided to leave the US or Canada and settle in Mexico is because we wanted to simplify our lives. Certainly, contemporary life, particularly in Western culture, is busy, complicated and stressful. Many of us balanced
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Sometimes, despite holding a wealth of high cards, you will reach a slam and when dummy comes down you will see no clear way to making your contract. Such was the case when this hand was played in a match-point duplicate event. South began proceedings with 2
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After-School Artists – The Children of Ajijic Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Painting the village of Ajijic provides the visual artist an incredible range of colors and textures in the natural world – pungent reds, a range of blues, pale purples, brilliant yellows – seen against an unending array of textures: broad fronds,
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Garbage Truck We really waste a lot of time worrying when it is really just that: a waste of time. A lot of our worries are about things that actually never happen, and many more of our worries are about things we can’t do anything about. Seems
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The Auditorio Improvement Project By Harriet Hart The Auditorio de la Ribera is like an old friend – she’s always been there for us when we need her, so we may have started to take her for granted. Friendships need work. The Auditorio does, too. She is now 35 years old and although
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag A Brief History of Work For artisans, work was good during the Middle Ages. At 14, a boy might proudly be apprenticed to a master craftsman. By 21, he was called a journeyman, and finally became a master. They belonged to trade guilds, to which they paid
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