by Michael Soares | Oct 14, 2019 | Volume 4, Issue 11
Some of you know my background well enough to know that I have a Masters in English. Like a lot of English majors, I had a fascination with Hemingway. Studying the way he wrote—his simple and direct way of writing without the elaborate prose of many of the writers of...
by Michael Soares | Sep 30, 2019 | Volume 4, Issue 09
A very good friend of mine in the US committed suicide about 8 weeks ago. I had seen her only a month or so before that. She seemed more upbeat than she had been in the past year or so. I’m at a loss to understand it and for a long time I will wonder, […] To...
by Michael Soares | Oct 7, 2019 | Volume 4, Issue 10
Wow. I mean really. Wow. What a circus the US political situation has become. You all know I hate Trump. I’m not going to try to argue with those of you who love him. I’m not going to try to convince you to see what I see. I feel he’s a liar to an extreme […]...
by Michael Soares | Sep 23, 2019 | Volume 4, Issue 08
I’ve talked about our place in Yunguilla before, a lot, and now that we are here on a pretty much full-time basis, I have to say that the tranquility and remoteness of it are……growing on me! I know, many of the expats who know me are still wondering what I’ll get...
by Michael Soares | Sep 16, 2019 | Volume 4, Issue 07
“I’m running around like a chicken with my head cut off.” Now that’s not really a pleasant thought when you stop to think about it. Because, for those of you who have never seen it, a chicken DOES run around for a while when its head gets cut off. It’s disturbing....
