Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com The change in Tepehua is not always gradual. In 2021 alone the roads have been repaired, not one at a time but several, creating confusing navigation through the broken streets. Electric poles have been changed and Telmex is available in most areas. […]
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Ramblings From The Ranch By Christina Bennett How to Find Your Next Best Friend When we exit the car for our volunteer shift at The Ranch, we hear the barking. It’s our friends, waiting to see us. We fill our pockets with the biscuits we have brought and start saying hello. The first kennel
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Word Salad By Sally Asante Crazy English Part 7 [Directory blurb: A final look at the comical vagaries of the English language.] In the rigid expressions that wear tonal grooves in the record of our language, beck can appear only with call, cranny with nook, hue with cry, main with might, fettle only with
Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz By David Ellison Juana Inés was an illegitimate child and, what was far worse, a woman. Even so, she emerged as the greatest American intellect of the 17th Century. Juana Inés could read and write by the age of 3. At 16, she begged to masquerade as
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El Gringo By Juan Mata By Robert Bruce Drynan They sent us another gringo. The gringo jefes in Caracas don’t trust the new jefe Guaicaipuro. Maybe they send this gringo to watch him. Not so stupid after all. The other gringo jefes they sent before Guaicaipuro were hard to understand. Now they send Guaicaipuro
LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 July 2021 “ We have to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.“ D.H. Lawrence The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range of presentations. For more information and to make reservations,
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MEXICO: Assisted Living in Your Own Home By Donna Mansfield My husband died last January. He had MADSAM (Multifocal Acquired Demylinating Sensory and Motor Neuropathy) and had been in declining health for 12 years. With the onset of COVID restrictions, and his further deterioration to the point of being unable to walk even with
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Unsung Heroes The Butcher Shop By Herbert W. Piekow My Guadalajara neighborhood is typical, twenty blocks either way are sixty-year-old two-story houses one built against the other, each neighbor sharing a common wall. Some have businesses on the ground floor with a residence above. Once my house had a street level warehouse while the
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A Tale of Three Elephants and an Elephant’s Tail Dr. Lorin Swinehart This is a story of three groups of elephants, one in Thailand, one in Botswana and a third in the US. The elephant in Thailand, along with his fellows, has been rescued from a life of hard work and cruelty by
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Contempt By Robert Bruce Drynan Closed Senate Hearing- Armed Services Committee “For the record, will you please state your name and present occupation?” “Lt. Coronel JoAnne Rae Hazlet, United States Army. I have recently returned from Iraq and I have received orders to report to the Military Police Training Command at Fort Leonard Wood,
