A Difference In Perspective By Kathy Koches Remember the Monty Python song, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life?” I love that song. It always makes me laugh, but it also expresses my philosophy. Some of you know that my friends call me the “FBBOH” (the “freakin’ blue bird of happiness.”) But I’m […]
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And To Think That Only Yesterday By James Tipton It was common in recent years for Enedina de Los Angeles to doze off sitting up. Sometimes it happened in the plaza in Magdalena, as she sat near the bones of Father Kino. Sometimes it happened in the Church of San Francisco, where God fell
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The Joy Of Art: An Introduction to Fine Art By Janice Kimball Reviewed By Kelly Hayes-Raitt The Joy of Art inspires like The Joy of Sex: It’s sensual, motivational, mind-expanding and soul-enriching, but with better pictures! This book is not a paint-by-number instructional. Rather, it’s visual poetry that covers both the basics and the intricacies
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Mr. Wooten’s Christmas Eve By Bonnie L. Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com Mr. Wooten moved the heavy draperies aside and looked out the window past his naked elm surrounded by accumulated snow. He hated when it got dark early. And he hated Christmas Eve. He watched his neighbor adjust Christmas lights; they softened the glow of the
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The Old Gringa By Mel Goldberg She enters the old hotel followed by the teenage boy hauling her suitcase filled with clothes she will never wear and books she will never read up three flights of tiled stairs to her room looking over the terra cotta rooftops alive with cactus in the winter warmth.
EL PIPILA—An Unlikely Hero By Herbert W. Piekow Despite a large red sandstone statue of El Pipila in Guanajuato, there is little written about this unlikely hero of the 1810 Mexican War of Independence; in my opinion he is Mexico’s first veteran for civil justice and independence. Juan José de los Reyes Martinez Amaro
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Do you and your favourite partner have a clear understanding of the meaning of all bids made against your opponents’ pre-emptive calls? Herself and I believed we did until this hand popped up during a team game played in October at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The little piece by Martita Noon in your publication of November last, about the EPA Clean Power Plan, makes misleading assertions. She writes: The (clean power plan) CPP “is based on the discredited theory that climate change is a crisis caused by the use of fossil fuels emitting
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Grim Choice By Pia Kraus Aitken From the time I was eight and read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, I wanted to see Hannibal, Missouri. Off we drove, tent, sleeping bags, and cooking gear in the back of our station wagon. After camping out a few nights in the beautiful Missouri countryside, we drove into
Self Perception – Self Evolvement Series By Anna Elena Berlin Certified Professional Coach, Experience of Life Researcher Whether you know it or not, stress from self judging, blaming, and condemning activates your sympathetic nervous system. It initiates your fight or flight response by producing stress hormones, shifting blood flow, and redirecting energy from your
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