Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt “Violence in Mexico…News at 11” Hardly a week goes by without one of my family or friends calling or writing to me asking about “all the violence” in Mexico. News of all the violence and killings taking place in Mexico are headline news in the United States and …
Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “Gossip” What is gossip? Here are some indicators: 1) You talk about someone and your intention is not “good will,” 2) You say things you would not say to that person’s face, 3) You pass on to others details that you do not really know anything …
Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Paradise or Wasteland There are 12 countries in the world that harbor approx. 70% of the total biodiversity of the planet and have earned the privilege to be called mega diverse. Mexico is one of them; Mexico takes first place in reptiles, second in mammals and fourth …
OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Lord, Prop Us Up On Our Leanin’ Side When I’m in the States, one of my hobbies is traveling the back roads in order to take pictures of old weathered barns. Many times I’m drawn to them because their weathered condition has caused them to “tilt” or …
Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Languages of Love Once in awhile, you run across a book that puts a clear framework around a confusing problem. Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages shines a bright light on the dark confusion of why each partner in a “good” relationship might feel unloved …
UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Black or White…or Maybe Gray? When our children were young, my wife taught me a technique for helping them to pick what to wear. I had been making the mistake of asking them, “Well, what do you want to wear today?” which precipitated an exhaustive review of everything …
CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Abraham de Jesús Gamboa Meet one of the most recent children who has come to the attention of Niños Incapacitados —Abraham de Jesús Gamboa Quiñónez. Quite a name for an eight-year-old little guy, no? In fact, Abraham turned eight just three days following his visit to the …
Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Avoiding the Well-Traveled Lettuce In this hot dry season, lettuces often arrive at our stores warm and tired and somewhat wilted and smelling funny, just like all of us. I often think of those crates of lettuce tooling down the road singing “Five hundred miles, 500 miles, …
THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood A New World Order Might the global economic crisis, dire as it is, actually set the stage for ushering in a new world order for the benefit of all? The crisis clearly began in America with an ethos that rewarded short term greed and encouraged high risk …
FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren LookingBy Norm FosterDirected by Bob Coull This entertaining comedy by Norm Foster is an ideal community theater production, with four contrasting characters and some humorous and well-written dialogue. Smoothly directed by Bob Coull, Looking gives us an inside view of two pairs of friends and their desperate, yet …
