Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag “The Mariachi Kid” President Kennedy gave his civil rights speech 50 years ago in what the New York Times calls “Kennedy’s finest moment.” It was the beginning of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by his successor, Lyndon Johnson. Racism is no longer the evil of …
Discovering Guadalajara the way Columbus might have: Getting Lost. By Ed Tasca Not long ago, I decided to take my first trip motoring into Guadalajara, the city once known as the Pearl of the West. To buy a set of drums. I’d never driven my car into Guadalajara before and I didn’t have a …
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JOHN MUIR—Defender of the Wilderness By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “The mountains are calling and I must go.” Once when a fierce windstorm raged through California’s Yuba Valley, John Muir, perhaps our greatest wilderness advocate, climbed a 100-foot Douglas pine to better experience nature in all her glory. He was spellbound as trees six feet …
DEAR PORTIA —Advice to the Lovelorn, the Overfed and The Deeply Disgruntled DEAR PORTIA: I have been writing short stories and poems for most of my life, yet have never had anything published. But that’s not what bothers me. By now I am on a first-name basis with rejection. Yet I still derive great satisfaction …
Water For All By Margaret Van Every The high walls of Las Delicias, armed with broken glass on top, were a formidable bulwark against the needy of San Antonio, who subsisted in squalor just on the walls’ shadow side. Every dwelling in Las Delicias had its own swimming pool, tennis courts, orchards and ornamental …
Child of the month By Barb Corol Meet Joaquin Joaquin, who will be three in December, was diagnosed with West Syndrome. This is an uncommon to rare epileptic disorder in infants named after an English Physician. The syndrome is age-related, generally occurring between the third and twelfth month, generally manifesting around the fifth month. There …
UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer What We Think We Know This column, which I have been writing every month since January of 2007 is called, of course, Uncommon Common Sense. This phrase, coined by Benjamin Franklin, infers that common sense is indeed a good thing. Many would agree. After all, we see lots …
Los Ancianos By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com Few contrasts between American and Mexican cultures are more striking than the way in which each views and treats its senior citizens. America’s seniors are often cloistered in assisted living facilities or nursing homes far from family and friends. Mexico’s oldest – los ancianos – seem …
The Saint Of The Dead By Bill Dean Nadie se va de este mundo vivo.(No one leaves this world alive). Mexico can hardly be credited with being the country of origin of something so obvious. Yet, Mexicans can be credited for recognizing that dreading death is not the only way to think about it. …
Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Have you noticed that cats and dogs seem to get along better than many people?? Cat and dogs are quite different from each other, but seem to encounter, or create less negative interactions with each other than humans seem to do. Animals do not have calendars or watches to …
