April 2013

My Carry-On Bag By Loretta Downs   We are the best of friends. It began with a blind date that led to a period of ambivalence about the nature of our relationship before we decided to become “just friends.” We have grown closer as we’ve grown older, and after 45 years, we know each other […]

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Path of No More Learning”     “Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.” These words were written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in Modern Buddhism: The Path of

Stupidity Is Contagious By Neil McKinnon   (Ed. Note: Neil is the author of Tuckahoe Slidebottle (Thistledown Press) which was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award and the Howard O’Hagen Short Fiction Award) Lowbrow movies, books and television programs are harming our brains. A recent study at the University of Linz in Austria

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King Part Four   “The Church has always maintained the Historic Teaching that deliberate acts of contraceptives are always gravely sinful, if done with full knowledge and deliberate consent.” Quote from Robert Brom, Bishop of San Diego. Wikipedia Press Release stated. ‘ The 1973 Roe v Wade decision opened the door to

Chapala Malecons By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarello www.antoniorambles.com antonio.rambles@yahoo.com   Something about the sight of a distant horizon anchored by an expanse of blue water makes a walk along the shoreline like no other walk. For most folks such a view is the stuff of which vacation memories are made.   For anyone living along

LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com April 2013 PAST EVENTS   March 10 – 11 there were performances by Mac Morison at one of the most beautiful properties you might see. AsMac and Carol Bedord sang, we were swept back in time

Life Among The Animals —We Love some, we eat some, fear some   Dr. Lorin Swinehart   One sultry summer day when I was two, I accompanied my father on a jaunt across my grandfather’s pasture, where our fox terrier Bobby could be heard barking excitedly. We found him face to face with a large ground

View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com A Visit to Don Otavio   For those who want to try a tiny adventure to the south shore, make a pilgrimage to the Hacienda San Martin, only a couple of miles south of Jocotepec. This private hacienda is reputedly the location of Sybille Bedford’s classic 1953

Are We Really Out Of Iraq? By Kelly Hayes-Raitt   I’m going back in August to find out. Iraq first captured me in February 2003, five weeks before my country captured it. I returned three months after the US-led invasion to find the Iraqis who had so deeply touched me. I wrote about my encounters

Mexico’s French Pastry War By Herbert W. Piekow   In the first twenty years of Independence from Spain, Mexico averaged a President per year and in 1828 Mexico City saw four violent days as forces of Presidential candidates Manuel Gómez Pedraza and Vincente Guerrero Saldaña fought in the streets. When the dust had once more