Days Gone By Courtesy of Paul Titterton Do you remember? Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Murgatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd! Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! The other day a not-so-elderly (I say 70) lady said something to her son about […]
Old Friends By Bonnie L. Phillips Susan had difficulty breathing when she reached the hilltop and saw her old friend standing alone amongst dead brush and a stump-strewn moonscape.Sunlight glinted off the crooked metal plaque erected next to the tree. Early this morning, like every other morning when Susan hiked with her walking stick
How To Get Your Steps In By Chad Olsen “You’re just going to have to get a little more exercise,” my doctor was saying to me as I was wondering if 3:00 p.m. is the start of happy hour here on the West Coast—it’s 5:00 p.m. in Ajijic, after all. I‘m here for my
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The great thing about duplicate bridge is that it reduces the luck factor in the game. Every hand in match point games can be interesting and challenging as you are striving to score better than the other pairs holding the same cards. A low-level contract such as
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Not Now. Really? By Paul Allen Some people are conscientious enough in their self-awareness to deeply weigh issues and challenges. This guides their response. This is ‘good thinkin’ as long as the issue doesn’t get thorny or time-sensitive. Other people are less alert and seem to avoid any challenge. They simply want to be
Forced Landing By Day Dobbert(Continued from last month) In a two-seater Cessna chartered out of Ensenada, I was headed for the island of Cedros off Baja’s Pacific coast. A fishing boat was to ferry me further west to the uninhabited Islas San Benitos, bearing additional provisions for Bruno Vailati’s Rome-based documentary film company, awaiting
Dancing With Di By Kathy Koches “DIANA!! I can really see Diana?” I shouted with joy. I was standing in line in Leicester Square at the half-price/day-of- show ticket booth. The Royal Australian Ballet Company was performing one of my favorite ballets, Giselle. My husband had no interest in attending, and decided to spend
EXISTENTIAL DREAD— and the Quest for Meaning By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The first photos taken of the earth from outer space would seem to have diminished man’s sense of importance. Earthsky News recently published a photo taken of the earth by the Voyager I spacecraft from 3.7 billion miles out in the solar system.
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Scratching For Grub By Ana Rasgo “Cluck, cluck, cluuuuck!” The chicken’s stress mirrored my own. I could hear her while in the RV’s bathroom as she chose to nest under the black tank for warmth. I can’t blame her, if I was a loose chicken I would look for the warm spot to battle
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Only Once In A Lifetime A Novel by Alejandro Grattan-DominguezReviewed by Carol L. Bowman Only an exceptional screenwriter, one who wrote, directed, and co-produced a major Hollywood motion picture, could take that movie and more than twenty years later turn it into a thought-provoking novel. That writer/director happens to be Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez, editor of
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