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 Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Involvement financially in Casa Hogar Los Angelitos is a great investment in improving lives. Almost everyone of us is suspicious that if we donated to something, our money would not go to the bottom line. That place where our hard earned money makes a difference. We can testify […]
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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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By Tommy Clarkson from the May 2014 Edition Cycads A very basic overview “Cycas” comes from the Greek word for palm tree . . . but it ain’t! Cycad is the common name for approximately 100 species that comprise the plant division of Cycadophyta. Many do resemble palm trees in their leaf and stem structure and some […]
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In this issue: Letters to the Editor Nature Planting Roots – Cycad – Tommy Clarkson Red Tide – Suzanne A. Marshall Living in Mexico Cinco De Mayo – Kirby Vickery Traveling the “Wright Way: Part II” – Mark Wright Living in Manzanillo Shopping Translations – Freda Vickery Herbs & Spices General Interest A night at […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the May 2014 Edition More than 1.6 billion people ride Mexico City’s subway each year making it the world’s eighth largest people mover, just behind New York. While not displaying the mayhem we’ve seen on TV, etc. of India’s public transportation where people cling to the outside of trains and buses, it seems no […]
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