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Food
Inspired by My Father’s Lasagna My Father was a great cook; he would create the most fabulous and at least to me, exotic dishes, like rice with octopus, fried squid, and homemade sausage. He would of course spend a week’s food budget on one meal, reminding me of Babette’s Feast. Also, I am afraid he…
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Poet’s Corner
Enough Blood Has Been Shed I am done, I no longer choose to participate in this undeclared war, with you or anyone else. I do not want to fight, you are not my enemy, though apparently you do not feel the same, you see me as your nemesis . Why? I am…
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The Gecko Says
A Beautiful View The Juniper tree had stood in the stony ground on the rim of the Grand Canyon for many, many years. There were times no matter what the weather or what the day looked like the Juniper would think back to when it was a small sapling; when the wind and the cold…
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From the Editor
“Tell Them Mike Sent You” Mike is a rather modest man, even though he is the Chief of Staff for the Governor of Hawaii, who in between his other duties, which I feel certain are very important, makes time to steer misguided tourist in the right direction, and even snap their picture, standing in the Governor’s…
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Connected
Who Will Decide if You are Entitled to an Address? Where do you live? What is your address? Who picked north or south, Elm or Maple, Washington or Lincoln as your street address? In the non-digital world, our address is significant, playing a role in determining everything from what schools are children will attend to…
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Poet’s Corner
Your Story You have entrusted me with your story, but I do not yet know how to tell it. The hero’s and villain are clear even the plot is readily defined; yet the magnitude of your experience has left me stupefied. How can I do justice to what you have said? How…
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Remembering Nine Eleven Public Square
“Remembrance Garden” We Will Never Forget There is a memorial at the Remembrance Garden, in Winslow, Arizona, that honors the memory of the events and the people impacted by the tragedy of 9-11. The plaque states: “These two steel beams from the World Trade Center, entrusted to the citizens of Winslow by the City of New…
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From the Editor
“Tell Them Mike Sent You” Mike is a rather modest man, even though he is the Chief of Staff for the Governor of Hawaii, who in between his other duties, which I feel certain are very important, makes time to steer misguided tourist in the right direction, and even snap their picture, standing in the Governor’s…
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Connected
How’s the Weather? Ask IBM In the autumn of 2015, IBM, initials which initially stood for International Business Machines, made what might be considered a rather odd purchase, for a company today known as a leader in technology. IBM actually bought The Weather Company. The plan is to put the technology, called Watson AI to…
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The Gecko Says
The High Cost of Not Dying The recent press regarding the pharmaceutical company Mylan and the criticism of price gouging for the EpiPen has brought forth – in an election year where debates about the cost of healthcare rage almost daily – significant negative press towards Big Pharma. Now there are talks of impending investigations…
