Fowl play The chicken is one of the few things you can eat before it’s alive and after it’s dead—fried egg, fried leg. There’s probably some live eating here in Asia, but I don’t want to know about it. My first childhood memory of a live chicken was just before its death. The farmer had […]
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Warren grew up in London, England and graduated with an Honours degree in Mathematics from King’s College, Cambridge. Michael moved to Toronto in 1972, and then to Ajijic, Mexico in 2000. Michael was a member of the “Blue Asterisks” poetry workshop for eleven years in Canada, and also a director of
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Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press. In 1517, 67 years later, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses for Church reform on the church door in Wittenberg, in what today is Germany. His 95 Theses began the Protestant Reformation, which led to a series of religious wars that lasted about 131 years and
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March is the month for women and is celebrated internationally on the 8th or 9th of the month. Once in a while Lakeside celebrates its heroines. Last month was one such occasion at Huerto Café in Riberas, a restaurant well known for helping local charities. The comparatively new Poco a Poco organization, taking on the
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Susan left with one hundred dollars in her purse and her six-month-old baby strapped in the car seat of the old pickup truck. In the area behind the seats was everything she needed packed into two little suitcases. The baby slept, unaware of the danger her mother was leaving behind or where she was going.
(Mountains north of Maturín in eastern Venezuela) Mauro Ortega, El Gato, lay on a ridge above the lonely rancho and observed the events below. The morning had dawned bright and sunny, but by early afternoon clouds began to gather in the north along the coast. The November rainy season would bring moisture to the mountains
March 4th (Forth) My dear friend John Holley used to observe each March 4th with gusto. To him this day was a cry to continue moving forward, to never let himself get lackadaisical, to grab every bit of deliciousness from every day and strongly soldier on. John is one of my heroes. His bravura towards
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The doorbell rang. It was my neighbor, Beatriz. Venga conmigo! Ahorita! Come right away, as she gently pulled at my sleeve. We both live in downtown Ajijic, close by Saul Rodiles Elementary School, a government-run school for grades 1 through 6. And that is where we rushed. Beatriz remembered that I’d tried to volunteer there
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Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes For half a century after La Revolución (1910-1917), two writers dominated Mexican literature. Octavio Paz became the preeminent poet, and Carlos Fuentes the outstanding novelist. The two were close friends, exchanging more than a thousand letters, but were eventually estranged. Paz wrote, “A flower without a stem is beauty waiting
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The Day I Met An Endangered Florida Panther “What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man. All things are connected.” —Chief Seattle On a hot, swampy June morning, I sat on the
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