CUTTER ANT APOCALYPSE! By Ed Tasca Our garden, a lovely house-front apron of flowering plants, shrubs and fruit trees, has been under siege by cutter ants, with no hope of a diplomatic settlement. They’ve been turning new and old-growth vegetation into confetti for weeks and carrying it through endless parades over my garden day […]
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AS THE TACO TURNS (And takes the world with it) By Beth Berube There is a store in Seattle called Chicos. Their clothes buyers have a brilliant philosophy. If a woman wears an off the rack size eight at every other store, she can try on a frock at Chicos in a size two. Voila!
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My Sex Life As A Fire Hydrant By Jeremy Monroe One day I became a fire hydrant. Sounds odd I suppose, but really not so different from Gregory Samsa.l Surprising, yes, but less disgusting. And, we never learned about Gregor’s sex life as a bug. Probably we had preconceived ideas about that too. My
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Maggie and the Hot Sheets Motel By Roberta Rich Driving three thousand kilometres from Vancouver to Colima, Mexico with Maggie is an unalloyed pleasure- except for one thing. She is seven years old now, placid, sedate, the doggy equivalent of late middle age, kind of like us. She has her bed in the back
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A LURE By David Bryen Tired of scooping salamanders from under the surface of the lake, naming them and racing them against her younger brother’s hoard, she ran up to me with a new idea: “Daddy, can I take the Aqua Pod out and go fishin? I wanna catch a fish.” Standing up from
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PEPITO ASKS:DID YOU KNOW…? That our website www.chapala.com is currently receiving more than six million hits per month! —That all the ads and articles in our magazine also appear on our website! —That our magazine is now all in color all the time, and the response to this innovation has been terrific! —That the
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THE CORKSCREW By Harriet Hart When I arrived at the front desk of the Fantasy Land Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall, I was handed my room key and two complimentary passes to the water park. This was my first attendance at the Canadian Paraplegic Association’s national meetings since my recent promotion. “First impressions
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Chia—Revival of an Ancient Aztec food By Roxanne Sumners Utzman Would you like to stabilize your blood sugar, decrease your cholesterol levels, lose weight and increase the nutrient content of your foods? Try chia seeds! The chia plant (Salvia hispania) belongs to the mint family and grows naturally from Mexico to South America. The
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WRAPPED UP IN THE DEAD SEA By Carol L. Bowman How can a body of water be so deadly that no living thing, except one type of bacteria, can survive within its midst, yet be so therapeutic for the human organism? How is it possible to start at ‘sea level’ and travel down 1300
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Viva la Vida LocaBy Sergio Drumond SERGIO DRUMOND is an artist, theologian and writer. Born in Brazil, he worked in Europe and Asia as a book illustrator, cartoonist, painter and animator. He also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and Thailand, teaching art as well as helping NGOs with social and relief work. He and his
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