July 2016

GET WHAT YOU NEED: Skills to Build Your Destiny

GET WHAT YOU NEED: Skills to Build Your Destiny Author: Anna Elena BerlinReviewed by Margaret Porter   Philosophers have debated the distinction of “fate” and “destiny” ever since Socrates held discourse in the Agora. In her book Get What You Need: Skills to Build Your Destiny (Wisen-Up Publishing; 200 pages), Ajijic resident and author Anna

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JIM SPIVEY—Still in Pursuit of Answers to Unasked/Unanswered Questions

JIM SPIVEY —Still in Pursuit of Answers to Unasked/Unanswered Questions By Margaret Van Every   A carrot and stick motivated Jim Spivey to fulfill his potential against seemingly impossible odds. The stick was having been born into grinding poverty; the carrot an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Add to these the synchronicity that put him in

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Maki

Maki By John Ward   She was abandoned with her brother on the side of the highway. The sweet, considerate person who abandoned them wrapped them in a towel as some sort of conscious-assuaging salute to pseudo-altruism. They were four weeks old. Luckily a kind soul found them on her way to work. She picked

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