Articles 2017

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Missing Mexico   As I sit in my hotel room in Minnesota, I miss my Mexico so very much. Gone are the sweet brown faces that greet me each morning.  I walk outside my door here, and there are no vecinos to wave to, to greet, to stop and […]

Christian, The Lion By Robert James Taylor Christian was born on August 12th 1969, in a zoo in Devon, one of three cubs, and he was acquired by the zoological dept. at Harrods in London. Two Australian ex-pats, namely John Rendall and Ace Bourke, noticed the three-month old cub and decided to purchase him with

Cat Burglars By Bernie Suttle   “Dean Higgins has one but he says it doesn’t work all the way,” I told my fifth-grade friends. Kyle, the Alfalfa look-alike, who always wore cheap, scuffed, cowboy boots to remind us all that he had once ridden a horse, chipped in, “Nothing he has works all the way.”

Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson   No matter how long one has been playing bridge there is always something new to learn and there is no better way than watching experts in high level competition. The website Bridge Base Online frequently broadcasts tournaments from all over the world free of charge and this

Ramblings From The Ranch By Linda Goodman When Ivy and Zoey, two terrified Terriers, got to The Ranch they were handled like all other new arrivals with individual care. Once The Ranch determines there is enough space to accommodate another dog, it is treated for fleas and parasites and vaccinated for viruses and rabies. They

Cinderfella By Jack Estes   In 1980, I lived in a one-room apartment with the bathroom down the hall, next to a plasma center, where folks sold their blood for twelve bucks and a sack lunch. Each Sunday, I searched the newspaper’s real estate section looking at “For Sale by Owner,” ads to call, trying

History Says A Man Discovered The Clitoris By Margaret Van Every   Of course, it had to have been a man because there were no women anatomists. Discovering something in the mid-16th century meant that you were the first to announce your finding in print, something akin to “discovering” a new land already inhabited by

Unforgettable By Bernie Suttle “How could he make a career out of that after such a disastrous start. Will he always remember his debut? We will. He spoke forty minutes. Presented clearly, all per lesson plan. Nobody can recall a word he said. We didn’t know if we belonged. It was a science, Physics in