“You have just entered the Twilight Zone.” By Peter L. Rosenberg We could hear those words being said by Rod Serling as we drove up the highway from Barra De Navidad to Puerto Vallarta. The top was down on the convertible as the weather was sunny and about 73 degrees. Then, rounding a curve, […]
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Fifty Year Anniversary – What’s Next for the Peace Corps? By Rob Mohr, RPCV Ecuador Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” —President John F Kennedy. While the Peace Corps (PC) has meant something different to each of the 200,000 volunteers who
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THE HUMBLE TORTILLA By Bill Frayer Every day I visit the small market. Every day I see the battered cooler. Get there early, or they’re gone. I open the lid, the sweet smell. The humble tortilla. Corn masa Mixed with water, flat and round. They cook ‘em on a griddle Flipping with fast fingers.
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THE VANISHING MARTINI By Robert Sconce One of the staples at our house for 30 years or so has been the martini, straight up with a twist of lemon peel. Word has got around that I make the best martini in the West which helps my social life. That’s because lots of casual friends
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GREAT WRITES AND WRONGS By Tommy Clarkson Last month, I wrote of James Thurber whose birthday, December 8th, was one day before mine. Well, F.T. Eyre has – once again – reminded me of yet another humorist writer whose works, as well as his last name, are singularly “Brilliant” – Ashleigh Ellwood generally precedes
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WHO WAS SHE—AND WHY THE SONG? By Bob Tennison Last night I heard an old recording by Lena Horne about “A Ms Otis regretting she would not be able to dine today.” As Pago would have questioned, “Who in the blue-eyed world was Ms Otis and why was she so important that the song
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THE TILLY & TOMMY REPORT By Anonymous Contributor In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite clearly been abused. In an act of kindness, the police took the
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SIMPLE TRUTHS Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash with his best friend, Wylie Post, was probably the greatest political sage the US ever has known. Enjoy the following: 1. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither
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Notes from San Blas By William Haydon The Cracked Tiles Of San Blas I have lived in Mexico for well over a year now. I have experienced Mexican weather through good seasons and bad. From virtual non-existence, my Spanish language skills have progressed to a sort of primitive fluency. I have eaten bad chorizo
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HAROLD RUSSELL –The Best Years of His Life By Roderick MacDonald In late 1944, as the Second World War was struggling to a close, the legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to make a movie that would tell the story of returning service veterans trying to adjust to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former
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