We meet today Sat at 7 pm Pizza Mass
PIZZA MASS,
Sarmiento 1601(Esq Montevideo),
Paseo La Plaza
Cheers
Pablo
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Mortal by Ivy Alvarez
Reviewed by Stephen Page
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and fecundity. She is often depicted in artwork as carrying corn, shafts of wheat, or the horn of Cornucopia (or a combination). She governs harvestable food for the people and plant life for the earth. The myth goes something like this, depending which version of the myth you read: Demeter bears a daughter named Persephone. When Persephone is a young maiden, Hades, the Greek god of the underworld spies her picking flowers in a field …

The female protagonists in Mary Akers’s collection of short stories, Women Up On Blocks, live maledominated lives. They feel trapped, yet are in the situations they are in because of decisions that they made during certain periods of their lives.
The first story, Medusa Song, begins as a story of child neglect:
She scrambles the eggs while the baby howls at her knees. To drown out the racket, she hums and jabs the fork into the yolks… then does a quick sidestep when the baby lunges for her knees.
His little fat hands …

MidSummer, MidWinter, MidLife
It’s been a very eventful month.
In June, I celebrated my 50th birthday here in
Uruguay. Because I was so far away from many friends
and family, my oldest daughter got stealthy, contacted
my Facebook friends asking them to send her a birthday
video or image, and she put it all together in a ten-minute
miracle video of love and blessings. It was the best gift I have
ever received, hands down. You can watch it here:
http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2010/06/19/fifty-years-love-adventure/
Tom and I spent most of June traveling around Uruguay in order to
escape the …