Spoken word artist Susa Silvermarie is a widely published and anthologized writer known for original work that delights the senses...
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Teaching From The Heart
(excerpt) I’d like to take you back to yesteryear, when I was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of...
Read MoreProfiling Tepehua – April 2025
Some personal musings … Where has time gone? I woke up this morning realizing I have just completed another trip...
Read MoreInternational fame of American School Magazine
When the American School of Guadalajara was founded in 1908 by Dalia Walsh its purpose was to serve the American...
Read MoreLakeside Living – April 2025
From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please send information for a local cultural, civic, community, or charitable event to ElOjoShelley@gmail.com on...
Read MoreVerdant View – April 2025
Aperire The etymology behind the word April comes from the Latin word Aprilis, which is derived from aperire. The Romans...
Read MoreYOU and Your Doctor Are Your Medical Team – April 2025
Gout is a common and complex form of arthritis that can affect anyone. A very recent study was completed with...
Read MorePrayer To The Rain God
Over the Christmas holidays, my daughter and adult grandson joined me for a two- week vacation in Guatemala. A key...
Read MoreStreets of Mexico – Mexico
Emiliano Zapata According to a perhaps apocryphal story, when Emiliano Zapata was but nine years old, he asked his father...
Read MoreVexations and Conundrum – April 2025
Perpetual Motion My doctors agree about one thing: I need more exercise. My cardiologist asked me how I’d handled the...
Read MoreThe Story Of America’s Noah’s Ark In Reverse
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain...
Read MoreA Voice For The Vulnerable
Meet Anita Torres Guerrero, a self-made humanitarian from humble beginnings who is dedicated to uplifting the lives of Lakeside’s indigenous...
Read MoreEditor’s Page – April 2025
April is a month of renewal. And while northerners may be experiencing April showers in hopes of May flowers, they...
Read MorePoetry Niche – March 2025
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Warren grew up in London, England and graduated with an Honours degree in Mathematics from King’s...
Read MoreThe End Of Empire
The Mongols. The Chinese. Persians. The Greeks. Rome. The Islamic Caliphates. Spain. England. The United States. Notice anything special about...
Read MoreSisterhood on the Day After the Election
It is remarkable how memory rises to the surface, creating moments of joy. Oddly enough, I joined my writer friends...
Read MoreImage Versus Substance
The depth psychologists tell us that we human beings are composed of multiple layers of being, or consciousness. Some believe...
Read MoreLakeside Dance Community Presents Movies and Icons – A Music Extravaganza
What began as a casual conversation over lunch among members of the Lakeside dance community has quickly transformed into one...
Read MorePillo:A Medication Tracker and Health Companion
Managing medication schedules can be challenging, especially for elderly individuals and caregivers. Enter Pillo, an intelligent pill reminder application designed...
Read MoreVerdant View – March 2025
Balance, Harmony, Renewal This year the Spring Equinox (or Vernal Equinox) falls on Thursday, March 20, 2025, and arrives at...
Read MoreProfiling Tepehua – March 2025
“Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” – George Washington Carver One of my sewing women...
Read MoreRamblings From The Ranch – March 2025
A Day at The Ranch About nine o’clock in the morning, one of The Ranch’s four part-time employees arrives to...
Read MoreUnexplainable Love
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with...
Read MoreLakeside Living – March 2025
Shelley Edson Email: ElOjoShelley@gmail.com From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please send information for a local cultural, civic, community, or charitable event...
Read MoreChasing Claudia Sheinbaum
I arrive in Mexico City aboard the seven-hour Turistar from Tlaquepaque and hit the ground running. My first morning, I...
Read MoreYOU and Your Doctor Are Your Medical Team – March 2025
The topic this month is Shingles (herpes zoster) an infection that causes a painful rash. People get shingles when the varicella-zoster...
Read MoreDream Team
I was recently vacationing in Guatemala with my daughter and adult grandson. We had just checked in to a gorgeous...
Read MoreStreets of Mexico – March 2025
Francisco Madero Francisco Madero inherited one of the five greatest fortunes in Mexico, so he and his family had done...
Read MoreVexations and Conundrums – March 2025
When Fantasy Dies In 1967, when “Brown-Eyed Girl” was on the airwaves of our transistor radios, my neighborhood friend Julie...
Read MoreWe Would Have Made Indiana Jones Proud
The Quest for the Fabled Lost Locomotive There were the three of us on that steamy summer evening, bug bitten,...
Read MoreMexico’s Love Affair with The Virgin
Mexico is the land of religious celebrations. For the past 500 years, few months have passed without a festival that...
Read MoreEditor’s Page – March 2025
Slow Your Roll Let us all stop and take a deep breath. The entire world is going through monumental changes....
Read MorePoetry Niche – February 2025
This month we feature the poetry of local poet Judy Dykstra-Brown. Judy Dykstra-Brown moved to San Juan Cosala in 2001....
Read MoreFabulous February Chili Memories
Ann Whiting started the Mexican National Chili Cookoff in 1978, and I first flew down from Dallas, TX in February...
Read MoreThe Solitaire Commuter
Edward Duffy was a man of habit. Ed worked at the old Chicago Public Library. Ed traveled in and out...
Read MoreTen-Year Old Travelers
When I was ten years old my mother announced that she and I were going to California to visit cousins....
Read MoreVolunteering in Nepal: Loitering in Lucknow
By Mark Sconce John F. Kenney’s entreaty, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you...
Read MoreThe Shocking Truth
I first discovered the power of an electric shock when I installed a heat lamp above an old metal shower...
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