In this issue: Nature Swamp Lily – Tommy Clarkson Tiny and Amazing – Suzanne A. Marshall Entertainment The Life of Pi – Suzanne A. Marshall Living in Manzanillo Acclimating to the heat – Suzanne A. Marshall Experience of Mexico – Freda Rumford Humor We’ve all met’em – Tommy Clarkson Our twisting way of talking – […]
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In this issue: Living in Mexico Grocery Gamut – Suzanne A. Marshall Snippets Green Flash Reflections – Freda Rumford A Christmas Story – Kirby Vickery Healthy Habits – Karen Trom Children Christmas Parties – Terry Sovil Gauchos Restaurant – Terry Sovil Humor We all have Met’am – Tommy Clarkson Twisted way we Gringos Speak – […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the January 2013 Edition Dizygotheca elegantissima, Aralia elegantissima or Schefflera elegantissima Family: Arabia, Araliace or Schefflera (Also known as False Aralia, Finger Aralia, Spider Aralia, or Thread-Leaf Aralia) No, this is not pot, hemp, ganga, Mary Jane, swag or any of its other scores of names! (You know of what we […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the January 2013 Edition (I claim no authorship of most of the following but when it was recently forwarded to me I realized that it fits, most perfectly, in this series!) There’s no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple, English muffins weren’t invented in […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the January 2013 Edition . . . it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully who has gone badly to seed. You know the kind – those guys (and occasional woman) who, no matter what you say, are the “I can top that” sort! […]
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In this issue: Living in Mexico Christmas in Manzanillo – Vivian Molick Westjet Seasonal Service – Suzanne A. Marshall Watch out all Busses – Freda Rumford Letter to Dan Atta Beach – Kirby Vickery Guys – Kirby Vickery Humor We all have Met’em – Tommy Clarkson Twisted way we Gringos Speak – Tommy Clarkson Nature […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the December 2012 Edition Stapelia gigantean Family: Asclepiadaceae (Also known as a Carrion Flower, Carrion Plant, Carrion Lily, Toad Cactus, Zulu Giant or Hairy Giant Starfish Flower) In the Asclepiadaceae Milkweed or Madagascer Jasmine family, there are around 100 species of the succulent perennial Stapelia. They originated in the semi-arid tropical […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the December 2012 Edition Perhaps, we may have dozed off during high school English class when the literary terms onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance and alliteration were addressed. But now that we’re a slight bit older (for some of us, substantive literary license is used there), might it not be fun to see […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the December 2012 Edition . . . you know the sort, it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully who has gone badly to seed. Recently while flying home, trapped at an altitude of 39,000 feet, one such person sat next to me. The […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the November 2012 Edition In as much as our alphabet starts with the letter “A”, what better prefix than that one to discuss the, often, weird way we, of the English writing and speaking ilk, communicate. For examples, take the word “atheist” – “somebody who does not believe in God or […]
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