By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2014 Edition Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato noted that “Virtue is without a master.” Around the same time, Buddha elaborated saying, “To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” Geographically north of “The Enlightened One,” Confucius observed that, […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the June 2014 Edition The Number “Juan” Restaurant in Manzanillo My wife, Patty, says that a business has “arrived” when folks answer a query for direction with something like this, “The place you are looking for is two blocks south of Juanito’s.” Indeed, Juanito’s Restaurant is such an eatery of renown! Upon arriving there, […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Some men like to take the family to a Sunday game. If the family doesn’t have an interest the guy’s friends do and with tickets they all can be entertained for about three hours with some socializing before and after the game. This is the modern man’s dream […]
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By Señior Tech from the June 2014 Edition This past year I had to replace my computer hardware. My trusty PC, which I built 8 years ago, developed a problem with the voltage regulator chip on the motherboard (the main circuit board on a computer that controls the hard drives, and houses the main processor and memory). […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Most Americans consider 65 the traditional age to take Social Security benefits, but there are other options. You can take them early, at age 62, or late, up to age 70. If you start collecting Social Security benefits in the first year of eligibility at 62 you’ll receive […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the June 2014 Edition (Most everyone knows someone like this. He is the individual who has done it all. Everything you’ve experienced, he’s done better. Recently while flying home, trapped at an altitude of 39,000 feet, one such individual sat next to me. The following is a continuation of this, seemingly, unending experience.) “You […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Bougainvillea glabra Family: Nyctaginaceae (Same type and size as Paper Flower.) It’s said that the highlight of French Navy Admiral Louis de Bougainvillea’s 1768 odyssey was his discovery of the Brazilian flowering vine that now bears his name. And, what a great and colorful one it is! In […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the June 2014 Edition Air Root Bromeliads (Tillandsia) Family: Bromeliaceae Also known as: Air plants While in 4-H as a youth in western Kansas, I learned in entomology studies that technically speaking all bugs are insects but all insects are not bugs. In the plant world a comparable corollary is that while all Tillandsias […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition I was in the cosmetic industry for many years and although I both learnt and taught the basics and foundation of the product lines I represented, never did I ever have the time in my busy, frantic life to find the sheer pleasures of that world. This was […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the June 2014 Edition Since childhood I have been enthralled with these beautiful fluttering creatures, at that time, completely unaware of how truly remarkable they were. I was simply engaged by their remarkable beauty and flight. We had learned in school about their basic metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar then the chrysalis to […]
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