Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit: http://thedarksideofthedream.com Robin Williams—The Pagliacci of Comedy Sigmund Freud once said that a person’s disposition is often set by the age of five—and perhaps this was true of Robin Williams. Raised in a wealthy suburb of Detroit, his father was an executive with one of the […]
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Massive Human Rights Tragedy On US Southern Border By Dr. Lorin Swinehart In recent months, there has been an influx across the southern U.S. border of approximately 57,000 children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, most unaccompanied by their parents. Ordinarily, the sight of impoverished, homeless, abandoned, mostly parent-less children would inspire compassion among
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Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hess artthedogguy@yahoo.com Fishing in a Cranberry Bog I read a cute story awhile back about a couple of Good Ole Boys who loved ice fishing. Seems they heard of a good spot a couple of hours away so they gathered their gear and headed out early on
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The Art Of Silence By Blanca Salazar Take a deep breath. This is very important to live a healthy life, to enjoy the pleasure of listening to your silent voice. Deep breathing is such a good experience because it helps us to come back to the principal fountain of energy which is beating in
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com The air is cool and a weak dawn filters through the clouds as I rub sleep from my eyes and hope that there’s someplace to buy coffee at this early hour. The heavy clouds seem to bode ill for a Machu Picchu sunrise, but visitors are undeterred as they
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Lakeside Little Theatre– 50th Anniversary Season The Lakeside Little Theatre is offering us seven plays this season, and in addition we’ve already been delighted by the special NTLive showing of War Horse. There will be more special screenings direct from London’s National Theatre, with tickets available only to
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer The Millennials Are Coming! I am a baby boomer, as are many readers of the Ojo. We grew up in simpler times, remember communism, the assassinations and Vietnam war protests of the 1960’s, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Reagan years in the 1980’s. The events and trends
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Letters To The Editor Dear Sir: I’ve waited a few weeks after the article in “Ojo del Lago” written by Robert Nipper, to see what impact it would have on people, and, boy did it ever! Mr. Nipper wrote, using the Preamble to the Constitution, what it means to be a Constitutional Conservative. The
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The Joy Of Language By Cassandra Torres “We are all born (I believe) with the resources to speak and understand language. After that, we are free to express however and whatever we want.” – Noam Chomsky. For the past three weeks the Language Institute of the American School of Guadalajara offered a summer program,
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El Cadejo By Roberto Moulun The villages followed one another like pretty sisters on their way to school. We were in the highlands, and the fields were blond with wheat. Here and there, as if they had been planted in error by Albino, banana trees shivered. They looked like they could use a drink.
