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FEATURE ARTICLES
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Carol Curtis faced many icy challenges up in New England, and thought in coming to sunny Mexico, there would be no more slipping and falling. She had not reckoned on encountering the cobblestones of Mexico!
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14 LOCAL CUSTOMS M.A. Porter ventures into socially dangerous ground when she discusses differing attitudes toward tipping here at Lakeside. She is especially disdainful of the false accounting that goes on between women at the lunch table.
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Editor’s Page
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Uncommon Sense
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Bridge by Lake
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Joyful Musings
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Welcome to Mexico
Tony Passarello writes about those most nomadic of merchants, Lakeside’s street vendors, reminding us of the title of Hemingway’s memoirs, A Movable Feast.
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Grape Expectations
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Anita’s Animals
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Heart at Work
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Thunder on Right
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Lakeside Living
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The Poets’ Niche
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Focus on Art
30 HUMOR John Ward does the impossible, finding much humor in passing through airport security in the USA, a procedure which in earlier times was called “running the gauntlet.”
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Liz Hartman writes from the perspective of her cat, Hobbes, who was one of the felines here at Lakeside who lost his first owner, but ended up with a new one, whom he absolutely adores.
55 MEDICAL ADVICE Judy Lacy sounds a warning that is very much like the old Boy Scout oath: Be Prepared! Disaster can strike at any age, but older people, especially, should take to heart the moral of this article.
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