Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt Insurance Miseries They sit there glaring at me from their pile in my inbox. It seems no matter how hard I try they won’t go away. Insurance claims. At a time in my life when I should be healing and mourning my husband’s passing, they consume my time …
THE POLIO WARD University of Michigan 1957 PART TWO By Janice Kimball The incessant pushing of air into the lungs of helpless children, then sucking it back out, in mechanical death-defying beats. ‘Phew-Whooh, Phew-Whooh’ continued through the days and the nights when I was thirteen years old and laying on my back, feet strapped …
The Day We Met George By Linda Steele February 12 of 2021, a record-breaking winter storm hit the Texas Hill Country in Central Texas. The folks living in this part of the country were not equipped for such a cold and long-lasting storm. Wind generators froze, livestock and wildlife succumbed to the cold. Once …
Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes The Fall Fall, not the season upon us, full of Walt Whitmanesque descriptions of vibrant colors and crisp air, but the kind of fall where gravity asserts itself. This topic is suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the topic du jour, the topic of the year. First, I noticed …
Judge Less; Love More By Christy Wiseman I recently heard a beautiful interview with Paul Mitchell (for those of you who don’t know, he was the retired representative from Michigan, who went into office as a Republican, but later left the party for the Independent party, as did I, and for the same reasons) …
El Dorado The Legend The Muisca Raft By Robert Drynan Discovered by peasants in 1856, it is the center piece of the Gold Museum in Bogotá, Colombia. The raft is a single unit made from a lost art using a clay mold. It portrays the rite of propitiation of the God of Lake Guatavita, …
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com 2020 was a year of challenge, but it had prepared the front liners in Tepehua Community Center a little for the challenges of 2021 although they were different inasmuch as everything intensified. We can all name people around us who have contracted …
If Our Pets Could Talk By Jackie Kellum Does your pet have ‘whisker stress?’ Yes, there is such a thing. Whiskers serve a purpose for both cats and dogs. Whiskers are not like hair as they are thicker at the base and narrow toward the end and are three times deeper than hair follicles. They …
Bandit on Board By Rosamund Levy My husband Michael and I have been boating together since before we were married. For many years we lived on the shores of Lake Ontario, in and around Toronto, but kept our boat several hours drive north, on Georgian Bay. For those who may be geographically challenged, Georgian …
Verdant View By Francisco Nava The Three Sisters Corn, beans, squash…their universal language – food. Corn is the first born. It grows straight and tall and has a lofty goal—a strong stem for its younger sisters. Once planted in the moist earth corn seeds take on water quickly. The endosperm drawing water to it, …