By Yann Kostic from the August 2015 Edition Life expectancy has increased significantly in the past 100 years: The life expectancy of a person born in 1900 was age 47, compared to 79 for a person born in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But when it comes to retirement planning, it […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2015 Edition Several of the early philosophic thoughts of Western Man originally had four elements. They were: Earth, Fire, Wind or Air, and Water. In ancient Greek times, Aristotle added a fifth called Aether (now you know where ‘ether’ gas comes from). He figured that the first four […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2015 Edition Putting what one theorizes into practice has turned out to be a significant challenge. As I wrote last month in my article, “Give Me the Simple Life”, I now know firsthand that achieving a simplified life is truly not that simple. Basically, our grand scheme is […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2015 Edition My wife Camilla and I decided to take a small jaunt out of Manzanillo one morning to go and visit the ‘El Salto’ waterfalls. Leave our condo in El Ferro, and head southeast on Blvd Costero Miguel de la Madrid, until you hit the sailboat. Then […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the July 2015 Edition In a lot of cases of mythological lore there are stories to teach or demonstrate. As such they have a tendency to carry an absolute power somewhere to add to the educational weight of whatever the story is about. What a person finds in an allegory from one culture […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the July 2015 Edition Starring: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson Director: Matthew Vaughn “A Spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.” This movie is a super-slick spy thriller that takes the […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the July 2015 Edition Starring: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie Director: Brad Bird “Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2015 Edition Surinam Cherry, Eugenia uniflora Family: Myrtaceae Also known as: Brazilian Cherry or Cayenne Cherry Native to Surinam (well, duh!), Guyana, French Guiana and southern Brazil, this shrub or, maybe, more correctly a tree as it can grow up to twenty-five feet (7.5 m) has slender, multi-trunked, spreading branches […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2015 Edition Family: Leguminosae, Fabaceae, Papilionaceae or Cleomaceae (It sorta’ depends upon which botanist you ask!) (Also known as: Naked Coral Tree, Sunshine Tree or Variegated Coral Tree) The Erythrina genus consists of around 100 various trees and shrubs. The preponderance of these sport spiny trunks and branches with a […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the July 2015 Edition My wife (Camilla) and I have visited Manzanillo most every winter for the last five or six years, staying in local hotels and rent by owners. We have fallen in love with the weather, people and the region. In fact, we have gone as far as to […]
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