Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The Puerto Vallarta Regional Bridge Tournament in November produced more than its share of interesting, not to mention difficult, hands that often left declarers scratching their heads in an attempt to find the best line of play. Many pairs who were in game contracts in the illustrated […]
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton The Corner Grocery Last month I wrote about several incredible journeys on foot, some for thousands of miles, and I wrote about the profound effect these journeys can have on the consciousness of the journeyer. But even the little journeys we take each day, perhaps only
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Roof tops of Mexico are usually flat (azoteas), with a small parapet enclosing wall, creating a place less visible to the neighbors and not easily accessed by strangers. In the 1920’s in Mexico City a “cuertos de azotea” typically housed workers of the people
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Dear Portia Advice to the Lovelorn, the Drastically Distracted and the Deeply Disgruntled Dear Portia, I am so discouraged! I made three New Year’s Resolutions, and I have only been able to keep the one about maintaining a ready stash of Snickers Bars. The other two had to do with rather urgent changes in
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Bebé By Margaret Van Every I had been passing much of the afternoon at a Starbucks in Midtown, answering email as I waited for my ride to arrive at 5:30. I had been homeless all afternoon, as are many who drift into Starbucks seeking refuge from the elements, access to wifi, or perhaps a
Democracy in the USA is Dead! A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy
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A Vietnam War Brief (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) By Beverly Bandler bgbandler@yahoo.com What We and Others Might Have Been Spared Had JFK Lived Various timelines are offered for the Vietnam War, a war of mind-boggling complexity, a blood bath of valor and brutality, ideals and corruption, determination and banality—a war that revealed
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Hanged Man There’s a hanged man outside in my yard, he swings in the wind like a black fruit and I feel his weight falling into the void. On a moonless night he’ll come to my door with an end of knotted rope around his broken neck, and he’ll ask to come in
Ramblings From The Ranch By Syd Sullins For us at the Ranch, we love to look back on the dogs that have left the Ranch and found happy loving homes. One of these was Keno. Before volunteering at the Ranch I didn’t get the attraction to pit bulls. I felt they were dangerous and
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“COWBOY UP” – Riding the Dream By Rosemary Grayson “Everyone wants to be cowboy,” said Rosalind Freed now one of a new breed of ranchers in Arizona. I flew over to visit Ros and her husband Ted Freed. They are now launching their Lakewood Ranch for horse lovers in the Chino Valley, two hours
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