Over Coffee For Jeremy Monroe, in memoriam I’ll have another cup of coffee please and one for the debonair man whose words are wisps of steam hovering above my cup; whose words are tiny cohetes, tightly packed with long experience and deep knowing, bursting over the Ajijic plaza; whose words are rocketing from Mexican […]
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star A Personal New Year Message to Carl Sagan By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@aol.com We at Lakeside and around the world are about to complete one year and begin another one. It is something we “humans” have been doing for half a million years. Indeed, we are time travelers. And yet, we
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My Life as a Spotlight Whore By Tom Nussbaum I’ve always been a spotlight whore. Performing never frightened me. Having an audience didn’t scare me. But there always had to be one underlying condition: I had to have some control of the situation, like costume details or amount of frontal nudity. My recent forays
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Requiem For Stanley By Bernie Suttle “Ya’ goin’ to the service for Stanley?” Bart asked Ralph. “Sure. He was part of our society. Ralph’s vestige of a brogue gave evidence of his land of birth many years ago. He declared. “Sure, it’s a proper day for a burial with the grisly gray of the
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I Would Have Been a Nazi By David Ellison The revelation came as a slap in the face. I’d been teaching my high school unit on WW II and the Holocaust when it hit me: I would have been a Nazi. Yes, I, a passionate long-time progressive activist and educator, would have been a
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