Books How sweet, how difficult their birth brought home, adored, unbundled, shrink-wrapped, received with joy, kissed and caressed and fondled – These lost abandoned children, shadows of former selves now left without a second glance alone, unread on loveless shelves. Michael Warren
Man’s Best Friend By Lori Geiger In the USA, approximately four million dogs are euthanized every year; in a study, it was established that about 20% were adopted from a shelter, 18% were found as strays, and 62% purchased from a breeder, or pet store. Sadly, in a separate study it is believed that over
On Becoming Canadian By Neil McKinnon A recent newspaper carried an item about new Canadians complaining that their citizenship test had been too difficult, that even people born and raised in Canada would not be able to answer the questions. New Canadian, Aristotle “Limey” Woo-Alley-Sing agrees. “Even people born and raised in
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Escape To Mexico Mexico has long been a haven for writers from all over the world, and was/is for many of them what Paris must have been to the generation of writers that included such famous names as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos. Mexico has also had its own
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY, AS WELL AS THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF ENGLISH: 1. Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things. 2. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. 3. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 4. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still
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A Brief History Of Jews In Mexico By Mel Goldberg Arriving with the first Spaniards, Jews have lived in Mexico since the fourteenth century. Their history in Mexico may be divided into three significant time periods: the 14th, 18th, and 20th Centuries. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY The first Jews arrived about thirty years after
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com In Defense of Slow It’s no secret that we are addicted to speed. Life proceeds at a fast pace today. Perhaps it comes from the old saw: Time is money. Since the early part of the twentieth century when Frederick Taylor came up with the term “scientific
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson They say that a good start is half the battle. Don’t tell that to this month’s West who made an excellent lead in the diagrammed hand played at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club, only for his side to come up short in the end. South
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The Girl In The Daisy Hat By Sandy Olson I wasn’t thinking about death the day we went to Carlos‘n Charlie’s bar in Ixtapa. I had plans with friends who also lived in Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, American expats in Zihuatanejo don’t have much interest in Ixtapa: the manicured lawns, the
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Alcohol is Not an Equal Opportunity Beverage While the majority of people drink alcohol at least occasionally, very few people know much about it or how it affects their bodies. With the holiday season soon upon us, this is a good time to look at
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