October 2010

MEXICAN DAZE: Sennacherib, the Alpha Humming-bird. – October 2010

MEXICAN DAZE:Sennacherib, the Alpha Humming-bird. By Iris Slocombe   Alpha humming-bird? Do humming-birds have a ‘pecking order’? We would have thought not before we encountered the bird we named “Sennacherib” after the vicious king of Assyria who “swept down like a wolf” on the Israelites, as recorded in the second book of Kings in the […]

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Pancho Villa’s Granddaughter – October 2010

Pancho Villa’s Granddaughter Fiction by James Tipton   Immediately after Ethel Chestnut chucked her old resources administrator job in Chicago, she began to sell almost everything. A few short weeks later she jumped on a plane and headed to the tropical mountains of southern Mexico, to Chapala, near Mexico’s largest lake, Lago de Chapala. Ethel

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