November 2013

Dear Portia

DEAR PORTIA Advice to the Lovelorn the Overfed and the Deeply Disgruntled   Dear Portia: Financial advice is probably not your forte, but I am turning to you as a last resort. Since moving here in 1987, I have gone through tens of thousands of my late husband’s hard-earned dollars, chasing one investment dream after another. …

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Veterans’ Day

Veterans’ Day By Bob Drynan   Korean War Memorial, Washington D.C.   A patrol moves silently through the perimeter. The darkness shrouds their movement and the cascading rain muffles their progress. It’s a large patrol, a dozen men, led by a sergeant who has been in the line for eight months. Occasionally lightning in the …

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Native Gifts

Native Gifts By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Thanksgiving Comes but Once a Year—Credit Where Credit is Due   Thanksgiving should be a time to remember Native Americans for the cornucopia of foods and medicines that we take for granted in our daily lives. We have all been regaled with the story of the “Indians” teaching the …

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Shadow Love

Shadow Love By Rob MohrReviewed by Herbert W. Piekow   Shadow Love by Lakeside writer Rob Mohr is just as the book cover says, “Poems of Life and Love.” Although this is Mohr´s first book of poetry, these are not his first published poems. Mohr, with a MFA, has had an interesting and full life …

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