Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez History’s Most Fascinating Fictional Hero Imagine a character so interesting that when his creator tried to kill him off, waves of dismay came from English-language readers all over the world. This same character would give rise to exclusive clubs in dozens of major cities, organizations whose sole purpose was […]
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If We Love Only One Person By Jim Tipton If we love only one person, that is obsession and not love. If we love only one religion, one thing is certain: we are not religious. If we love only one house we do not know what home really is. When we
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The Image Of Mexico By Herbert W. Piekow No image is more revered by Mexicans than that of the Virgin of Guadalupe. She appears on shirts worn by macho men, sewn onto school bags carried by students, as an emblem of faith around the necks of both sexes. The image of the Virgin of
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com Moneyball and Your Life I am a baseball fan. I love the game. I like everything about the game: its complexity, its leisurely pace; the diamond green oasis in the middle of a concrete environment; its tradition and legends; the fact that a game takes as long
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson All experienced bridge players know that an important objective in bidding is for a partnership to find an 8-card major suit fit, as that is the most likely place where games can be made. However, circumstances alter cases and one must be flexible and bold enough to
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Money By A “Friend” It can buy you a House, but not a Home. It can buy you a Bed, but not Sleep. It can buy you a Clock, but not Time. It can buy you a Book, but not Knowledge. It can buy you a Position, but not Respect. It can buy
Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Good Sex is Good for You! It’s February, almost Valentine’s Day. A day for lover’s and perhaps a little passion. Indulge that passion because scientific evidence supports what many of us have suspected all along: good sex not only adds great enjoyment to our lives,
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Eternity By Neil McKinnon neilmcki@yahoo.ca Away in the north there is a rock. It is a thousand miles wide and a thousand miles long. It stands a thousand miles tall. Once every thousand years a small bird comes to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, one day of
Welcome to Mexico By Victoria Schmidt Confessions of a Former Cook I confess. My maid has to dust my stove. Since moving to Mexico, I’ve acquired a complete aversion to cooking. It isn’t that I‘m unable to cook, or that I don’t know how to cook. I simply hate to do it. I think
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Leon Kreitman In Memoriam —1932-2011— Leon Kreitman departed this world on Wednesday, October 17, 2011 in Tonson, MD. He was born in Louisville, KY and lived there until he finished high school. He spent three years in Japan during the Korean War before continuing his education at Indiana University, earning a Masters’ Degree in
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