Responding Versus Reacting

As you go through your day, in your interactions with people, notice two aspects of yourself. When given the opportunity to speak, there is a part of you that will speak quickly. When given the opportunity to react, that part will react quickly. That is not really you. That...

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

by David P Carroll It's Saint Patrick's Day andEveryone is Irish todayAnd we'll have some fun along the way Green shamrocks and a colorful rainbowIn the clear blue skyAnd the shiny pots of gold are in sightAnd we'll sing and danceAll through Saint Patrick's night From San SebastianTo El Tuito and to...

Coloring Outside the Lines

When I was a kid--well, a smaller, relatively hairless kid--one of my more astute schoolteachers dared ask what the lot of us wanted to be when we grew up. Standard answers abounded: a future firefighter here, an aspiring athlete there, a couple of doctors in the second row, a...

A Committee of Vultures

A couple of days ago, as the weather made a sudden hard turn into Spring, I finished slow-poking my favorite garden fork into the weedy mess of my potager as the sun went down, heard flapping, looked up, and saw them settling in one of the big walnut trees...

Best Things About Teens

Being the parent of teenagers is fun, weird, and frustrating. You live with people who are as tall as (or taller than) you but still seem to need so much help.  They know more than you about niche subjects like TikTok or pre-calculus, but they don’t know how to...

Where Do You Actually Live? Where Do You Actually Reside?

There has been a lot of talk and thought about the state of the Earth, the state of Gaia, and the general consensus is that things probably can't continue at the pace they've been continuing without consequence. It's not hard to see that there's been a proliferation of pollution...

Farewell, John Henry Kreitler

Banderas Bay lost a great friend on January 28 when John Henry Kreitler passed away. John was at his home in Northern Kentucky, where he was surrounded by the love of family, friends, and his church community. John and his wife Patsy Meyer spent many winters in their Mismaloya...

Grandparent Love

Parenting is a challenge no matter where you live. It doesn’t seem like there’s a way to truly prepare yourself for how different your life is going to be. However, from the very beginning, I knew that having my children in Mexico, far from my home country of Canada,...

You Don’t Know What Your ‘Brother’ Is Here For

A famous children's fable is called 'The Ugly Duckling.' In the fable, there's one little duck that looks different and feels different from his brothers and sisters and never quite feels like he or she belongs. The other siblings also notice this and point out that there's something just...

A Crown for the Empress of the Americas

By RosAngelica Moreno The symbol of Puerto Vallarta recognized the world over is the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe that proudly wears her crown as she presides over the Plaza de Armas and looks out to Bahia de Banderas. Her crowned tower dominates the historic center of...

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