October 2024

When I was 12, I wrote a poem about Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain and I won $2.00. For two years, I lived in Mexico City, where I began a small business crafting decorative rugs to sell to local stores and tourists. I moved to Chicago and created a business making fine art rubber stamps. I now […]

Mariposario Our Growers Group decided to take a field trip to the Mariposario (butterfly nursery/garden) in Jocotepec this past month. The Mariposario is a large, black-netted, walk-through structure that allows the visitor to commune with butterflies that make their way passively into the structure enticed by drying fruit. The Mariposario is an independently funded project

Tepehua Community Center provides numerous quality services to the people in the barrio of Tepehua: financial assistance for education, reduced medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and drinking water services, diabetes and maternal health programs, food assistance, business management and skills training in our sewing program, and more. Moonie King’s visions and efforts in creating “a village helping

As Florence drove out our mile-long dirt lane, I felt happier than on a Christmas morning. My mother’s friend ignored family protocol to treat the four sisters equally and often brought gifts just for me. I never understood why, but perhaps she had also been a ‘stuck in the middle’ child, wearing faded, hand-me-down clothes

Cats and dogs, like humans, can develop UTIs / urinary tract infections. Basic anatomy: There are two kidneys, and there are two tubes [respectively a left and right] called the “ureters,” and each of these ureters leaves their respective kidney going “downwards” into the bladder. At the lower end of the bladder is one tube

Beyond the Masks We Wear Not until you have the courage to meet yourselves face to face…will you have taken the first steps along the path of wisdom. Judge Learned Hand. Discovering the self that exists behind the mask we wear (that everyday persona we present to others) is a gift. Here in that secret

A novel by Daria Hilton and illustrated by Leonel Lazcano Real This novel is filled with good and accurate details such as;  “the old girl leaked too much oil to park in the garage,“ in reference to the protagonist Morrigan´s 1976 Volvo. When she, “bumped onto Mission Street.” Written with the authority of San Francisco´s

Don Beaudreau Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com Las Voces del Lago will present their annual Holiday Concert titled Gaudete (Rejoice) onDecember 12, 13 and 14 at the Lakeside Presbyterian Church in Riberas del Pilar. All concerts are at 3 pm. This year’s concert will feature beautiful choral selections both sacred and secular in Latin, English, and Spanish. Translations will

Hernán Cortés Cortés was intelligent, courageous, ambitious, insubordinate, greedy, ruthless, and an inspiring leader—the quintessential conquistador. He established the Spanish empire (New Spain) in Mexico. In 1511, Cortés joined the conquest of Cuba, and impressed the island’s first Governor, Diego Velázquez, who chose him for his secretary, appointed him mayor of Santiago (Cuba’s capital), and

This article is an over-view of hernias that occur in both males and females. But to explain the frequently used terminology and to clarity there is a difference between a hernia and a prolapse, a herniaoccurs when part of your “insides” bulges through an opening or weakness in the muscle or connective tissue that is