BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson One of the first things aspiring bridge players learn is that when you play in a suit contract you can often increase the number of tricks you make by ruffing losers in dummy. It is a concept that is fairly easily understood and teachers usually emphasize that […]
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Meant For Each Other Of the many experiences during my first years in San Antonio Tlay., one favorite is about a brown stallion named Lassie. Why he was given that name is anybody’s guess. I recall wondering at the time if he might be gay. Lassie’s
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Once There Was Camelot—American Style We all know the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The rotund piece of furniture of which I speak, however, was the Algonquin Round Table, which in the 20s, 30s and early 40s was regularly occupied by some of
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AS THE TACO TURNS(And takes the world with it) By Beth Berube Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler – Let the Good Times Roll My disposition is markedly improving. In a twist of good fortune, my last hormone stopped pitching a fit and is resting peacefully. And just in the nick of time because there
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com November 2010 The Culinary Arts Society of Ajijic featured Mexican cooking at their September meeting, complementing that with one of the best speakers on Mexican cuisine. Cristina Potters has lived in Mexico since 1981 and now lives in Morelia. Her award winning
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD ACCOUNTANTS (Part Two) By RM Krakoff (Continued from last month) Amanda reappears moments later wearing an oversized Kansas Jayhawks sweatshirt. Donald gawks at her long, tanned legs and wonders if she is wearing anything under her shirt. Amanda glides into the chair across from the couch where Donald’s eyes are
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A MONTH IN PERU—Part III By Mel Goldberg Puno, Lake Titicaca, and Macchu Picchu(Final Installment) The street noise in the city of Puno was incredible. Almost everyone travels on motorcycles, even families of four. It is not unusual to see a man and a woman with two children between them on a 150cc bike. We
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I Was Playing Hooky When They Discussed Dangling Participles By Scott Richards Words, just five little letters, a rather small amount of the almost infinite group of collected symbols that we have created and chosen to express our emotions real, or imagined. Words are our units of communication, the elements of language representing fear,
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FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo” Painting is a passion that, for me, operates outside the twin arenas of need and greed. Oh sure, I was pleased when a San Francisco gallery asked me to submit slides this week. Pleased, and enormously flattered. One of my oldest dreams is—oops, was—to exhibit in important
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HAVOC IN MOTION By Jay Raymond WhitePublished by Whoopinhell Books, 2010Reviewed by James Tipton Havoc in Motion, Jay Raymond White’s new book is a collection not only of the fine pieces that appeared in his column, also called “Havoc in Motion” in El Ojo del Lago (November 2008-October 2009), but also of more than
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