February 2012

  EINSTEIN’S EYES     Einstein could see the fundamental meaning when others could only see numbers. He could see when the logic did not fit. His unseen sense knew what lay beneath. Sometimes I look at a garden or the sun shining on asphalt or into a child’s deep eyes And wish I, like

Literacy In Ancient Mexico By Ronald Barnett   Literacy is often considered one of the distinguishing features of any civilization. In ancient of Mexico the codices, or painted hieroglyphic books, of the Maya, Aztecs and Mixtecs illustrate graphically the development from oral or spoken tradition to written or literally expression. Most native records were destroyed

TALES FROM THE TRAIL: Top Ten Election Movies By Kelly Hayes-Raitt   A recovering politician, I’m inspired by recent “top ten movie lists” to compile my own top ten list of great campaign movies. Chosen for their authenticity in describing tales from the trail are these films, in no particular order: 1.  The Candidate stars

Hairy Tales From Italy By Bob Tennison   About fifty years ago British television took the right approach in that the one station at that time was BBC and the other station was all commercials only. Sadly, we here have come so far from that concept that one hour program is about forty minutes story

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A Metamorphosis By Margaret Van Every   though superior in the great chain of being humans expire no differently than roaches belly up, facing the light Agatha already has her right foot in the tub, well on her way to taking a shower, when her eye trips over a roach in the classic death pose

Village Vignettes/Magical Moments By Micki Wendt   Still in their crisp, white kindergarten uniforms, two young girls are playing out in front of their house, when a certain cowboy, a well-known local character, casually rides up to the girls to give them a better look at his horse.  Beside themselves with excitement but with great trepidation,

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)   For those sensitive Readers who yearn for a friendly verse, of poetic rhyme, of piquant turn of phrase, of unmuddled message and salubrious rhythm—a cousin to the Rhythm that pervades our cosmos and even our lives on planet Earth. For those befuddled Readers

Now, You Take My Wife—Please!   Some people have a habit of telling occasional lies, either little white lies to spare the feelings of others, or bigger lies in the interests of self preservation. Not my wife. She could never tell a lie even to save her life, or more to the point, mine. The