EVER WONDERED ABOUT CANADA? Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted on an International Tourism Website. Obviously the answers are a joke; but the questions were really asked! Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow? (England) A. We import plants fully grown […]
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THE TOMATO THAT CHANGED MY LIFE By Lea Ament A few months ago I actually picked a tomato from a vine and popped it in my mouth. What a revelation! Had I really forgotten what a tomato tasted like? Suddenly as I gazed across the lake at those NAFTA greenhouses and plastic covered fields
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And to Think That Only Yesterday By James Tipton It was common, in recent years, for Enedina de los Angeles to doze off sitting up. But today, when Enedina woke, she was sitting on a long bench, her bag at her feet, just outside the ruins of a large adobe house. She was covered
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THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY* By Beatriz E. Garcia It was not built in one or two days. It lasted years, somewhere between thirty and forty years. They worked ten hours daily, Monday through Friday. They left in the morning and came back in the evening. The work was with pick and shovel; and since there
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood Unfinished Business As I transition this spring from writing this column every month to simply submitting periodic articles I wish to thank readers who for many years have provided vital feedback to my process. If you are seasonal residents here—as we have been for twenty years— stay in
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch A Love Affair – with Books My present to myself has just arrived—an Amazon Kindle reading device. I was fond of my ipod, as constant readers know, but have fallen head over heels with my latest tech acquisition, which can instantly download up to 1500 books. Prior to
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FRONT ROW CENTERBy Michael Warren The DresserBy Ronald HarwoodDirected by Larry King This was a good performance of a difficult play. It’s a stagy, self-conscious play that can only work when the two principal actors deliver amazing performances. Don Rausch and Fred Koesling do deliver, but in the end the play itself fails to
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr Got a Cold? Nobody has colds these days. Everyone has flu instead. It’s more fashionable. The fact is, if you admit you have a cold, you get shunned because (a) nobody wants your cold; (b) it is your fault you got the cold because healthy people do
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Ask Carolyn By Carolyn Comedo DEAR CAROLYN: Some years ago I met Eduardo on a double date. He swept me off my feet and we eloped. Soon I discovered that he was already married so I sent him packing. Later I heard that he had died so I got married again to José. Then
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Xochitl Natalí García Márquez Niños Incapacitados is happy to introduce you to Xochitl Natalí García Márquez. Perhaps you haven’t heard or seen this name before—Xochitl (pronounced SO-chil) comes from the indigenous Náhuatl language (a pre-Hispanic language) and means “flower.” Little Xochitl is two years old and lives
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