Fiction By John Ward, himself a fictionswazijohn@icloud.com Fiction. Life is a fiction. Not even a well-written fiction. Who authored this drivel? Some say God. Some say Nature. Still others say the Thetans that sprang from L. Ron’s dementia and greed. I’d like to know the truth but the likelihood of truly discovering the truth […]
Order In The Court? By Jim Rambo (Ed. Note: This is the second in a short series of columns about the author’s experiences over his long career as a prosecutor up in the “old country.”) THE JUDGE SUMS UP During jury selection in a murder trial before Judge Carl Goldstein, the prospective jurors were
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There Are Always Consequences By David Moss The phone rang a few minutes ago. My friend said he was canceling our lunch together. “It was just too cold,” he told me, “to go out.” We made the usual global warming jokes and wondered who had had the bright idea to hold an international meeting
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FAMOUS (Or Infamous) REJECTION NOTICES (Published as something of a gift to Lakeside’s many talented writers, to help keep them from getting discouraged.) 1. Stephen King Mr. King received dozens of rejections for his first novel, Carrie; he kept them tidily nailed to a spike under a timber in his bedroom. One of the
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THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRESS—Self-Evolvement Series By Anna Elena BerlinCPC, Experience of Life Researcher A University of Wisconsin (Univ. of WI) at Madison study conducted in 2012 by Keller, Litzelman, and Wisk examines the relationship between participants’ stress levels, the perception that stress affects their health, and health and mortality outcomes in a nationally
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MY OP-ED! (Sort of…) By Maggie Van Ostrand Maya Doomsday(First published in 2010) I’m sick and tired of hearing disagreements between the U.S.A. and Mexico. First, there’s the emigration thing with fences and coyotes and blustering politicians; second is the drug thing where the U.S. blames Mexico for their own addictive population; and now
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Animal Tales By Russell S. Dowdrussell@pdisearch.com There I was in my office, feet-up, watching TV when I glanced out the doorway and into the hallway mirror where I saw the Cat peering under the ottoman, intently. This can only mean one thing. A snake! That’s my conclusion. So I jumped up and rightly so.
The Ajijic Writers’ Group By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Ajijic is known for many things, not least of which is the literary ambience of our little village. For almost a hundred years, writers have gravitated to this corner of Mexico. In the 1920s, D.H. Lawrence wrote The Plumed Serpent while living at Lakeside. Later, another celebrated
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez A Brief History of Mexican Migration* During the early part of the 20th century, Mexico underwent a tumultuous social and economic revolution that was to have a deep and long-lasting effect on the United States. In the wake of that revolution’s shattered dreams, the first of the Mexican migrations
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The Milky Way, at night a silver river;Just look—the universe in stillness sleeps.The night has decked the sky in constellations.At such a moment one gets up and speaksTo time and history and to all creation! Vladimir Mayakovsky Trans. James E. Falen Harlow Shapley—A Profile in Astronomy By Mark Sconce I wonder what the good
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