January 2016

LAKESIDE LIVING   Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   February 2016   VIVA MUSICA PRESENTS  There’s an exciting spring schedule for opera and symphony lovers. THE OPERAS…. Here are the next “Live from the Met” productions at Teatro Diana. Saturday February 6 Turandot by Puccini. This is one of the grand operas in the […]

Mooky And Music By Day Dobbert   It was oppressively hot that day and dead quiet, but escaping the sun into my cool garden I heard an eerie rustling high up in my guayaba tree, then, lower down, a mad agitation of branches, then an unceremonious thud at my feet. Matted, filthy, and grey with

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: I liked John Dallas Hicks’ piece “The Particular Value of Pathfinders” as it resonated with what I have thought about for years, or at least since I became old enough to think for myself. What Hicks calls ‘pathfinders’, I would call mentors. It has intrigued me that if

Education Equals Success   This first article of the New Year 2016 will reflect the success of the December Christmas events hosted at Jaltepec, describe the current status of the newly renovated Jaltepec Conference Centre, and provide dates for future endeavours that encompass the sponsorship Program. The December 2015 annual Christmas dinner and luncheon were

El Indio By Gregorio Lopez y FuentesReview by Herb Altman   El Indío was awarded Mexico’s National Prize for Literature. The author, Lopez y Fuentes, was at the time the editor of a daily newspaper in Mexico City and had already achieved some renown. One of Mexico’s foremost artists, Diego Rivera, illustrated the novel. Opposite

AP/ CAPSTONE—A New Way of Learning By Tania Romero   The American School of Guadalajara has been chosen to pilot a new educational program in Latin America. The College Board in New York and Cambridge University in England has combined to offer a two-year course called AP/Cambridge Capstone at the local school. The class is

“Two Kinds Of Truth” By Fred Mittag   The November Ojocarried a mischievous piece that attacked the Congress of the United States. The real issue is not whether it published some falsehoods, but rather, the motivation. I think it was because the falsities of the piece were based on truth. Several years ago, when I

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Orale!   Is pigeon Spanish a term like pigeon English? If so, I speak pigeon Spanish. “Or Spanglish.” It isn’t impossible to learn Spanish yet the more I learn, the more I find out how much more I have to learn. Arriving at Lakeside, I had studied Spanish for

The Moroccan Men’s Club By Carol L. Bowman   It reminded me of Paris, of the Left Bank café haunts where Hemingway, Picasso and Fitzgerald gathered. Rows of small round tables, with two chairs positioned side by side, faced the street in the open-air. The setting provided a backdrop for people-watching and discreet conversation. Moroccan