Para Siempre (Always) By Hildegard Hintz “May I have this dance?” Mitzi looked up from her plate. Apprehensive about going to the Pequeno Paraiso Restaurant on DoWop boogie night, she had decided that, after the death of her husband of forty years, having a meal by herself was the act of an emancipated woman. …
Percy With The Purple Penis By Libby Colterjohn Percy was just one of Duncan’s challenging patients, but the results of Percy’s treatment had the foreign community in Kuala Lumpur laughing for some time. Everyone underestimated Percy’s ability to turn every negative into a positive and Duncan’s treatment had the opposite effect intended. It’s a …
She Cannot—But I Can! By Karl Homann Do you know where and how the woman who cleans your house lives? After hiring Maria eight years ago, a single mother of two, I asked her to show me. She lived at the outskirts of Chapala in a shack made of plywood, a tin roof, and …
Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Art’s Digital Transformation – Giclée and Beyond “Our digital world is a populist force, leveling rich and poor, educated and uneducated.” Pew Research 2017 We live in a technical age when everything seems possible. A time when digital and 3D copies of original art from throughout history are …
To Go On Her Way By Susa Silvermarie Dorothy is lying on her side unable to speaksince her stroke three weeks ago.The bedrail is down, my chair drawn close.We are eye to eye.Dorothy managed apartments all her life.This once independent woman never married,has no family to protect herfrom medical meddling. Tomorrow,the nursing home physician …
Calico Cat She left us softly, just like that,Without a mew, without much fuss,She was discreet, a friendly catWho lived her simple life with us,And never gave a tit for tat.She let me feed her, stroke her tail,Or sometimes if I quietly satShe’d find my lap and purr a whileAs if to say “Let’s …
Sea Of Cortez If love were but a mere abstraction,I’d wish it still my sole distraction. SEA OF CORTEZ Tons and tons of brawny brineThe Sea of Cortez hurlsAgainst this Baja shore divine,This Cabo cast with pearls. Rhythmic rush and heaving crushOf waves upon this shore;Never ceasing, ne’er a hushBeating, beating ever more. It’s …
The Montana Cowboy By Bob Strand On the day it began, four of us were gathering one of our pastures in the late spring. The pasture was not as large as most of our ranch pastures. Being less than three miles across, it was fairly easy for four mounted men to sweep from one …
Critical Thinking Is . . . Critical! By Fred Mittag Maybe, like me, you can point to a few events or people in your lives that were major influences. Examples for me were my parents, three or four high school teachers, and a college history course called “Opposing Viewpoints.” This course included readings about …
UNDERWEAR—More Than You Ever Wanted to Know By Chuck Poulsen My Christmas stocking from my daughter last year contained a pair of SAXX underwear. That’s S – A – X – X, printed in big letters across the waist band. The price was also printed in large type on the box, like a secondary brand …
