Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The Annual Valentine’s Ajijic Tournament came and went with a lower attendance than usual over previous years. This was due, at least in part, to the price per session of $12 US (or 230 pesos) per person, which for Canadian participants is expensive due to our weak […]
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton Being Grace Full I have, as Theodore Roethke has in his poem “I Knew a Woman,” observed women “lovely in their bones,” who “moved more ways than one”; I have seen women who “moved in circles, and those circles moved.” Decades after reading them, Byron’s classic
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Operation Smile, based in Guadalajara, has been active in Mexico for ten years. You can learn more about it on www.operationsmile.org for local news, and add “.mx” for their international news. A little baby girl was sent to the Tepehua Free Clinic, having been
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Greatest Challenge Dr. Lorin Swinehart A recent film,The Revenant,features Leonardo de Caprio as mountain man Hugh Glass, who in 1823 was abandoned by his companions after surviving a near fatal grizzly attack but trudged, floated and crawled 200 miles to find help at Fort Kiowa. During his ordeal, Glass took shelter inside
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That Tramp May Be A Lady By Rosemary Grayson The pavement was wet. It was hideously cold through the thin silk dress. My shoulders become slowly soaked, and then the skirt clung round my thighs. That new bouffant hair was intact. Nothing came through for a few seconds time to glimpse legs, trousers and
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A Short History Of Nut And Seed Trends By Ed Tasca Remember “seedless.” Growers and farmers worked for decades to breed out seeds from oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, grapes and watermelons, a humiliating thing to do to any living thing. And, of course, years ago nuts were around for one reason only: so you’d crave
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com March 2016 PLAYS! OPERA! BALLET! After a fine start last season through its collaboration with London’s National Theatre Live, Lakeside Little Theatre has broadened its Playhouse Series, to be a key offering throughout the year. Also, an agreement with London’s Royal Opera House will enable
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Remarks Given at a Recent Ajijic Writers’ Group As Delivered (and written here) by Mark Sconce The 672th meeting of the Ajijic Writers’ Group is now in session. Please come to order. Let me repeat that number, ladies and gentlemen—the 672th edition of the Ajijic Writers’ Group. Alejandro Grattan did the arithmetic, and since
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One Is A Lonely Number By Christena Wiseman For forty years my husband had been promising to write me a love song. He was a wonderful musician so I knew he could write something I would cherish. He never did. The closest he got was when he was dying and he came out of
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Mini Movie Reviews By Mark Boyer BRIDGE OF SPIES—This Steven Spielberg movie has received enthusiastic reviews from critics and generally positive responses from audiences. It is a dark and moody movie based on a true story during the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviets in which Tom Hanks plays lawyer James Donavan who
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