It’s All Maya!

(Part One)

Aunt Dolores resting after a long trip.
Time passes so quickly and it’s already a week that my mom, sister and aunt were getting ready to return home after a whirlwind trip to France and Switzerland.  It was great having them here, but before you knew it, they were heading home and the apartment seemed […]

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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
I met ten refugees from Tibet not too long ago.  They had been given political asylum in France and were happy to be here while missing their homes, their families, and their friends.

Kangchenjunga, Himalayas
They told me how they had walked across the Himalayas from their homeland to Nepal.  It had taken them […]

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El Paso:  I love El Paso.  It’s a place where you can breath because of the vast openness of the desert, where the stars are as big as ripe apples and you feel that you can just reach out and pluck one from the sky.  I see the beauty that surrounds this border town, but […]

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Maya Muses:  A new Canadian law, the April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act, was passed and now there are several hundred thousand people around the world who may have gone to bed Thursday night as a citizen of some other country only to have awoken as a Canadian citizen and not even know it!  […]

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Maya Muses: Billy over at Billy’s Lines of Gibberish wrote an interesting piece about why French people manage to stay thin despite all the rich food they eat and it reminded me of an article I wrote two years ago when everyone was talking about the book, French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano, so I decided […]

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It was announced today that Canada will be giving about $3.3 billion dollars to the American Automobile Industry to help in America’s struggling economy!  Who would have thought that big, rich, powerful USA (who has sent help, financial and otherwise, to so many countries around the world) would come to the point of needing help […]

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Okay!  Don’t get your feathers all ruffled or put yourself in a tizzy!  Hear me out, and you just might be agreeing with me by the end of my post!
In Cuba the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) is the only political party allowed to operate in Cuba.  In the United States the only two parties that […]

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Wealthy Americans find socialism a dirty word because socialism means, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Capitalism means, every man for himself.  That’s it in a nutshell! 
So why is it that the rest of America finds socialism to be a dirty word?  Because wealthy Americans want people to believe that it is just two […]

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With both McCain and Obama talking about the price of gas, oil, off shore drilling, energy conservation, etc., Americans realize that the party may soon be over and life as we once knew it can no longer be maintained!
If you’re like me, however, and have spent half your life living in Europe, you get use to […]

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If history has told us anything, it’s that all politicians will say anything to get elected!  Promises are made and once elected, those promises go out the window!  Who doesn’t remember, “Read my lips: no new taxes.” and the controversy when George H. W. Bush eventually did raise taxes.  Is McCain, Clinton, or Obama any […]

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