Teresa Urrea She was the Mexican Joan of Arc. In 1889, when she was 16 years old, Teresa Urrea suffered an acute case of catalepsy, which left her in a death-like coma for nearly two weeks. When she recovered in an apparently miraculous resurrection, she claimed that she’d had heavenly visions and that the Virgin […]
Streets of Mexico – Agosto 2022 Read More »
In early 1972, when I was almost 19 and my parents were divorcing, I chose to live with my father. He was a man who loved everyone unconditionally, but was passive beyond all reason. He had never managed, and hardly tried, to subdue his paranoid, unpredictable Italian wife. Our attractive West Texas home was a
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One Nation? I was born into a staunch Republican family. My mother signed me up for Teenage Republicans, and my folks also gave financial support to the Republican Party. My mother took great pride in being photographed with President Gerald Ford. As typical for many mothers and daughters, our few differences evolved into sweeping ones.
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HAIKU A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition. The term haiku is credited to Japanese poet and literary critic Masaoka Shiki, who lived in the late Meiji period (late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries). Most haiku in
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A PROFILE OF A WOMAN. (A Tepehua Story). My name is woman, I have the face of poverty. Like so many of my sisters I was born into poverty with a dysfunctional Father…but there was love. It was the challenges he faced that were bigger than he could handle. He escaped into the bottle and
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Here at Lakeside, there is a need wherever we go. This article educates us on the Food Bank for Animals. As many of our Mexican friends have barely enough money to feed themselves, yet their fur friends are part of their extended family.
“He who feeds a hungry animal, feeds his own soul.” Read More »
JULY “Answer July—Where is the Bee—Where is the Blush—Where is the Hay? Ah, said July—Where is the Seed—Where is the Bud—Where is the May—Answer Thee—Me—” ~ Emily Dickinson For most of us in the northern hemisphere July means summer. Chickens are a-laying, sparrows are fledging, our gardens are lush with ripe fruits and vegetables and all
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Herbert Piekow delves into Mexico’s brutal history, exploring the major conquests of Mexico. And its difficult past.
A couple of months ago, I went back to California to get vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. In Mexico, I had been given the Chinese (Sinovac) vaccine, but that was eight months earlier, and it didn’t have all that great an effectiveness rating. Many European countries were not accepting it for entry, and I was
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