The Automat By Patricia Hemingway On a narrow side street in downtown Manhattan, inside one of many unobtrusive doorways, the lights were still on in Malik’s Automat Cafe. The surrounding offices were dark and inside them the elevators sat at ground level, empty and quiet. The security guard who lounged behind a desk in […]
The Ways You Walk Beside Me Friend, partner, lover, companion, spouse These are the ways we walk together. Forgotten fears, Foot steps behind us dissipating in the laughter of our growing old together, capable of having too much fun as my friend in the garden we long since planted with the soil of our
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com Tepehua Centro Comunitario’s vision is to educate and create opportunity for people to get OFF the mountain to find that opportunity. The location of Tepehua is high above the area of Chapala. Its view and location is a million dollar one. (Disregard the poverty for one moment.)
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Impossible Dream” Miguel de Cervantes (1564-1616) suffered unceasing failure throughout his life, yet in the only work of Cervantes that is still read, Don Quixote de la Mancha, written in his senior years while in prison, Cervantes created a character with such a high
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I really enjoyed reading “Cowboys Heroes of Yesterday” by Dr. Lorin Swinehart in your December 2013 issue. It brought back many memories and challenged me to remember others of that genre. I guess I didn’t see enough of Straight Arrow or Monte Hale to make an impression, so those
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Because By Gloria Palazzo Because yesterday happened the laundry bag is full. It is not full of clothes or linens. It is me. I am in the sack with a hammer, a chisel, a saw and some glue. Getting into the washing machine is not a simple task from this crouched position. It is very
TRUE NAMES: A Compendium of Unfortunate Appellations Compiled by Reba Mayo(The names haven’t been changed to protect the innocent.) These are from the Florida birth registry published in the St. Petersburg Times: Lemon Ham, Ima Rose, Cigar Stubbs, Bonnie Bowlegs, Winnie Mac Pough, Texas Moon, Emancipation Proclamation Cogshell, Okla Homa Mills, Toyota Corona, Maria Collier,
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Mexico’s Lord Of The Waters By Ralph Graves The current state of Lake Chapala is merely a phase in nature’s continuing cycle of the lake’s rise and fall. But according to an elderly Mexican friend, the state of the lake is more likely the work of the ancient Aztec rain god, Tlaloc. “It’s
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The Rescue And Death Of Joseph Meister By Mel Goldberg A doctor at a meeting of the French Academy of Medicine in 1842 rose to his feet and shouted. “Louis Pasteur is a criminal and should be guillotined. Who does he think he is, telling us what we ought to do.” This diatribe occurred
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Just The Facts, Ma’am By Carol L. Bowman The Cartagena heat and humidity took a seat beside us and crowded in close, as our taxi-driver maneuvered his miniature, yellow Hyundai through the narrow cobblestone streets of this muggy, Colombian port city. The angst of where we were going added to our drenched distress.
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