By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2010 Edition It would “appear” as quite obvious, to those who know me, that I like to play with words. Accordingly in an attempt to, again, apply logic to our English language if that lack of awareness, on their part, were to go away, said cognition would “disappear.” Thus, […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2010 Edition Family: MALVACEAE ALSO KNOWN AS ROSE OF SHARON, ROSE OF CHINA, ROSE MALLOW, ROSELLA, FLOR DE JAMAICA, AND SHRUB ALTHACEAE A brilliantly colored hibiscus is to the tropics what beans, around here, are to frijoles! These sun loving beauties are evergreen. Throughout the warm, temperate, subtropical and […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2010 Edition Be he merely literarily gifted or his books the result of focused and well researched work, the writings of Ralph Peters are thoroughly enjoyable and highly thought provoking. His latest, “The War After Armageddon” is certainly no exception. It, like “Atlas Shrugged” – the most classic of […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the March 2010 Edition Many of us of the maturing set, (read “old cusses”), grew up hearing our parents and grandparents employ a variety of rather strange, if not incomprehensible, expressions that we picked up and have also long used. However, now years later, we all too often find that we […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the March 2010 Edition Family: Cycadaceae Also called: Sago Palm Tree, King Sago Palm and Palm Cycad This is not a palm tree. It is a cycad and related to conifers and Ginkgo trees. In fact, the Sago is the most commonly cultivated cycad in the world. But widespread though it […]
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By Freda Rumford from the March 2010 Edition FIVE SMOOTH STONES Ann Fairbairn This book, originally written in 1966, is rich with well drawn characters with whom the reader can empathize. The story is of interracial love and set during an era of deep shame in modern American times. In a time of such pure […]
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By Freda Rumford from the March 2010 Edition Recently we were advised my husband needed a blood transfusion and there was none of his blood type available in the blood vault, would we please therefore arrange for potential donors to be available on the next working day! This being New Year and a long weekend […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the February 2010 Edition Lipstick Palm, Cyrtostachys renda (or lakka) Family: Areceae; Sub Family: Arecoideae; Tribe: Arecaceae Also called: Red Sealing Wax Palm, Sealing Wax Palm or Rajah Palm. Above this palm’s graceful, slender gray to light brown trunks are eye catching scarlet red to orange-red, three foot long, crownshafts. Simply […]
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By Freda Rumford from the February 2010 Edition Pictures contributed by Director of Tourism for Manzanillo, Edgar Lepe. Along the sidewalk by the ocean in central Manzanillo (the Malecon) are statues donated to Manzanillo by the Governor of the State of Colima over the past few years. These are a series of monuments dedicated to […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the February 2010 Edition OH HOW MEXICANS DO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN! Yes, most parents feel that they care for and about their children . . . but ounce for ounce, few can hold a candle to the intensity of how the majority of Mexican Moms and Dads dote on – and […]
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