Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “Metamorphosis” In our time, few people, even educated ones, read short stories, because the old human need for stories is now satisfied by what we used to quaintly call “moving pictures”—abbreviated now to “movies.” Most people might be hard pressed to even remember ten short stories […]
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Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Meet Ismael Uriel and his infectious smile. Ismael was born August 2002 and has been with Niños Incapacitados for twelve years. Shortly after birth Ismael was diagnosed with West Syndrome which is an uncommon to rare epileptic disorder in infants, named after an English Physician. The spasms
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: Reference to Lorin Swineheart’s article, October 2014 issue, pertaining to wolves and the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. Just south of Olympia, Washington is a similar place called Wolf Haven. A while back we attended something they termed a ‘howl-in.’ After dusk, and night fell, a large
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Love Is Love A poet wrote that love is gold while others say it’s blind but all I know is what I hold when you, my love, are kind. Though words are whirling in my mind words can be bought and sold and gold’s a metal that was mined and made in bricks,
The Ex By Mel Goldberg I had no idea what prompted her to call me after twenty years. I didn’t know she had the number at the college, although I had been teaching here in Flagstaff for thirteen years. The department receptionist only said, “You’ve got a call waiting from some woman who won’t
The Dream Homeless. Footloose. I met him quite by chance. I taught him to ride a bike, My bike, Shiny, new – white, with many gears. Wobbly, insecure, a big child, Smiling his toothless grin, Laughing his achievement. He disappeared with my new bike. Long after, he returned, The bike now black
Calcutta—1977 By Liz Larrabee (Three weeks and hundreds of miles from Bombay to the Bengal Bay side of India.) I had been dined in opulence at the home of a wealthy rug merchant in Delhi after I had deposited a month’s pay in the till at his shop. (The rugs, made in Pakistan as
LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com April 2015 PAST EVENTS RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY…. …but it didn’t. However, the perplexing March storm (what’s up with all this rain?) didn’t stop art lovers from attending and purchasing some great art at the opening reception. The Ajijic Society of the Arts—also known
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Garden Variety Birds By Dale Ingrey There I was comfortably ensconced in my chair that Wednesday on the covered patio overlooking the beautifully manicured tropical garden of our casita. Beyond the bougainvillea and hibiscus hedges the Sierra Madre Mountains loomed in the distance and Lake Chapala spread out across my field of vision from
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Michael Johnston wrote in Forbes 2009: The links between corruption and poverty affect both individuals and business, they run in both directions, poverty invites corruption while corruption deepens poverty. Corruption causes and thrives upon weaknesses in key economic, political and social institutions. The corruption
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