Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez JAMES HILTON—The Man with the Magic James Hilton Some months ago, this column rendered an opinion as to what was the best novel ever written. Our choice was Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, and we hope we provided enough empirical evidence to support such a selection. This month’s column is far …
Things I Did That Summer By Margie Keane Sometimes I get this undeniable itch to go back to a place that really made an impact on me. This year it was a return pilgrimage to Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts with my husband, Tom and 24 family members – five children and their spouses …
A Different Kind Of Love Story By Christy Wiseman Is he here yet? Adoption is a two edged sword. The best of all gifts for the awaiting parents; the greatest of all sorrows for the mother who is making the supreme sacrifice to give up her child in the hopes of giving him or …
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Noises OffBy Michael FraynDirected by Dave McIntosh This play, first performed in 1982, is described as a farce. It would more properly be called a lunatic satire. Most of the elements of farce are missing. As Dave McIntosh points out in the program notes, the characters are …
Yummy! By Sydney GayResident Chef, International Cities of Friendship Calabaza Season Is Now The history of Calabaza can be traced over 7,500 years from Mexico to the Iran, it’s a winter squash loaded with Vitamin A, postassium, antioxidents and fiber, somewhat bland when baked, so spices like cumin and curry are needed to enhance …
It’s Funny About Writing… From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. – Winston Churchill * I wrote a few children’s books. Not on purpose. – Steven Wright If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and …
The Crusoe Conversion By Carol L. Bowman We looked beneath the dock for a canoe, kayak or any water-worthy craft, ready for an emergency escape, but found none. Panic of the coming darkness welled up within me. The boat’s captain pulled the cord and the sound of the 12-foot panga’s outboard motor bounced off the waves …
Calcutta Karma By Mark Sconce My friend Richard and I finished our business in Calcutta and decided to take the train home to Nepal where both of us were engaged as Peace Corps Volunteers. Well into our second year, we were seasoned enough to get along both in Hindi and Nepali. Adventurous by nature, …
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com January is a new canvass waiting for a masterpiece to unfold. Every year that excitement of “something new any day I will know right away…soon as it shows!” (West Side Story). Sometimes we create our own happenings, sometimes we wait. The Tepehua Community Center …
For Kathy When the black rider comes with iron fistbetween the stones of dark and lightto stop your breath and blind your sightand take you, bound, into that night:you are not easy in your rest.Not easy seeking out the lightand why this dark’s so hard and brightand nothing left to be confessed:you give us …
