Articles 2019

Sex Theraphy By Jay Koppelman   I wasn’t crazy, I knew that. I also knew that going to a psychiatrist for couple’s therapy is common in modern society, so I agreed to accompany my girlfriend of over one year with the mutual goal of strengthening our healthy though sometimes fragile relationship. Jealousy had always been our […]

She Got It Right By Christina Bennett   “Will I ever get it right?” Trish thought for the thousandth time. The young receptionist frowned in concentration, her brows creasing. “Cómo?” she asked. She was trying hard to understand. Trish berated herself silently, “I am so stupid. What is wrong with me?” All this self-blame flustered

Yesterday’s Enemies/Today’s Friends By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   For a number of years, my Dad worked alongside a man who had served in the Pacific during World War II. He had many stories to share, one involving a Japanese soldier who was spotted walking through their camp in the jungle wearing an American army uniform.

The Starving Donkey By Seamus O’Hagan   Back in the days when I was gainfully employed at a high-tech company in Canada, I sat in my office late one evening, working on a problem that I apparently felt I could resolve by staring at the ceiling and hoping for some form of Divine Inspiration. The

“Time A La Mexicana” By Shep LenchekFrom the Ojo Archives   “Hurry up, you´ll be late for school.” “Can´t you ever be on time.” “Get-dressed, the party starts at eight.” Those of us from northern climes know too well the tyranny of time. It has been drilled into us from early childhood and has governed

Domain Of The Scorpion By Robert Bruce DrynanReviewed by Kay Davis     Bob Drynan’s pulse-pounding thriller is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War at its peak, in the midst of narcotics trafficking and Marxist guerrilla activities in Columbia and Venezuela. Ex-marine Ryan Haggarty, working in Venezuela as a petroleum geologist, meets Anne

Life Askew By Julia Galosy It’s All Relative   “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” Fat lot of good that does me now. A head full of quotes doled out to the unwashed

A Surprising Tenderness By Sydney Gay   There were two interesting men in my neighborhood: Will was addicted to alcohol, he sneered when spoken to, argued over small things, his children were unhappy and his wife look worried. The other neighbor, Sam, remains more deeply in my mind. A good-humored man with seven children, Sam’s