Articles 2011

Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC The Times They Are A’Changin’   My mom tells me the world feels like it is changing too fast for her to make sense of it anymore. I used to look at her like she’d dropped in from another planet. It all looked normal enough to me.

UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Mis-Estimation of Risk   Many of your friends and relatives north of the border undoubtedly worry about your safety in Mexico. This is understandable, of course. The American and Canadian media make it appear as though the entire country is rife with violence. We who live here do not

BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson   A great way for advancing bridge players to further their skills is by watching top players in the heat of battle. Since the advent of the Internet this has become easier than ever with websites such as Bridge Base Online regularly covering high-level matches showing the play

OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Finding Meaning And Purpose For Our Lives   A few months ago I wrote a column featuring one of my favorite songs… “What’s It All About, Alfie?” In that column I tried to explore some of the nuances of choices we have as we grow older and hopefully

Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez HEMINGWAY—Half a Century Later   Almost fifty years have passed since Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Yet both the man and his work continue to loom large over the literary landscape, much as did Kenya’s Mount Kilimanjaro atop the setting of one of his most famous short