Busted! By Pia Kraus Aitken piakrausaitken@gmail.com It seemed so logical at the time. We had awakened in our snug mountaineer tent to the placid sound of rain on our canvas roof. Cozy. A great time to go back to sleep and wait, but a day of adventures in the Ozarks of Missouri awaited us […]
LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com November 2014 COMING EVENTS BETRAYAL…ADULTERY…LIES… EVEN IN AJIJIC The upcoming show at Lakeside Little Theatre is Betrayal by Nobel Prize-winning author Harold Pinter. It’s an intense drama about adultery and lies and the misremembered memories of love. From left: Dave McIntosh, Jacinta Stringer,
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Alebrije What? By Marianne Carlson It was over 80 years ago when he awoke from a dream that changed his life and the lives of his family forever. Don Pedro Linares was suffering from a deadly illness when he dreamed there were trees, rocks, clouds, rare animals changing shapes with horns, claws and
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King moonie1935@yahoo.com Poverty in Mexico, according to Wikipedia, is divided into two categories: moderate poverty or extreme poverty. As of 2013, Mexico’s Government estimated that 33% of the population live in moderate poverty, 9% extreme; that makes 42% of the total population live under the national poverty line. Some economists
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The Bucket List By Kathy Koches Many of you have seen the movie The Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. It is the story of two terminally ill men, corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers, who have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a
The Real Medicine Dr. Jose (Pepe) Valencia pepe.plenitud@gmail.com My initial medical education was based in the traditional one: Medicine School at the Universidad de Guadalajara; years after (1978) I decided to open a small assisted living facility just as an additional source of income. Someday I realized all the needs the elderly have, so
Zipping In Haleakala By Katina Pontikes The brochure seemed wholesome enough.An older man pumps his fist high in the air and sports a gleeful expression as he swings through a forest-like background. The descriptions of the eco-adventure were all delightful in tone, promising fun, originality, and safety. The mention of my safety was the
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Reel Her In By Margie Keane Mabel Bass cheered “wahoo” as she boarded the plane bound for Las Vegas. “Five days of gambling! she thought, I don’t even mind wearing this stupid “Our Favorite Grandma” T shirt that came with my plane tickets.” She settled into her seat and opened a book, pretending to
Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Many duplicate bridge players have adopted Roman Key Card Blackwood (RKCB) as their weapon of choice when investigating slams, and with good reason: it is a vast improvement on the gadget created by Easley Blackwood many decades ago. The original Blackwood convention used a bid of 4
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Freedom’s Odd Couple By Jim Tuck Comparing world famous (or infamous) personages has long been a pastime of historians. Napoleon is compared to Caesar, Hitler or Stalin to Genghis Khan, Voltaire to H.L. Mencken. Yet comparison is inhibited by the fact that the subjects frequently lived in different times and under differing conditions. Eighteen
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