My Grandmother’s Cellar By Roger Johnson The cellar was open, but my cousin Joey ducked in even when we had been told to stay out. Of course we were supposed to stay out of the silo and granary too, but that hadn’t stopped us. We were at our grandparents’ farm where we all gathered […]
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Syrian Conflict Explained! Courtesy of James Garrow (For those who think foreign policy is easy.) —President Assad (who is bad) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the Rebels (who are good) started winning. —But then some of the rebels turned a bit nasty and are now called Islamic State
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com January 2016 (&^%#&$@!)?&#@! Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Bernadette Jones, will be performed this month at the Bravo! Theatre. An almost all female cast is the twist they are bringing to this Pulitzer Prize winning play about a very competitive real estate sales
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Self-Esteem By John Ward When Groucho Marx said: “I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a member,” he was, obviously, making a joke, but he was also touching on a far more pervasive and insidious characteristic of human frailty. Recently I gave a talk at LCS’s version of “TED” –
Why Eugene Hated Racists By Margaret Ann Porter In the weeks that followed his assassination on April 4, 1968, the congregation of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Carlsbad, New Mexico, held a march to remember the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mt. Olive was the black church in town. Other than ordering
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Don’t Mention The “P” Word! By Carol Ann Curtis My husband hates when I say that I’m thinking about “a new, little project.” He’s lived through several of my projects and knows just what can happen once the craftsmen and I get started. Let me share my most recent project with you. It sprang
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My Personal Archeological Site By Katina Pontikes A very old brown shoebox sits in a corner of a musty storage closet, stuffed with relics of my romantic history. The box contains loose photos of me on picnics or vacations, tanned and smiling, hopeful for a glorious life. Sometimes I am next to boyfriends who
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Core Volunteers Of Villa Infantil “Sisters, I must tell you, the kids are thieves,” Pete shared. “Oh, no, what is it?” Sister Blanca asked. “I tell you, Sister, those orphans have stolen my heart.” Pete Jarveis and his wife Julie are an integral part of the Volunteers at Villa Infantil. They learned of the
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NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL —Wins Sponsorship from the State of Jalisco By Jim Cooper The annual Northern Lights Music Festival each February has become perhaps the largest and most anticipated cultural event in Ajijic. For fourteen years over twenty-five world class musicians have been packing their violins, flutes, and cellos, and trekking to Ajijic.
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Lights, Camera, Action, Couscous By Carol L. Bowman Quarzazate—the Hollywood of Morocco “I’m shocked, shocked, to find out that film making is going on here!”—From the movie Casablanca Of the hundreds of movies, TV series and documentaries that have been filmed in Quarzazate, the Hollywood of Morocco, ironically the movie that is most associated
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