Date: June 2022Reviewer: Kathy KochesTitle: The Mexico Lunch PartyAuthor: Sonia Day Brief Synopsis: This is the enchanting story of four...
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Poetry Niche
Anticipation The vivid hues of flowers are muted by the dust. The radiant green of leaves now dully turned to...
Read MorePink Pencils
One chilly morning in late August, I drove in to work like every other Saturday. I had a job behind...
Read MoreVerdant View – August 2022
August August’s official birth flowers include the gladiolus and poppy. August, eighth month of the Gregorian calendar. It was named for the first Roman...
Read MoreRain In The Ravine
“Martin, come play soccer with us.” “No thanks. I’m too bad to play soccer. Besides, they are about to set...
Read MoreYOU and Your Doctor Are Your Medical Team – August 2022
Your professional relationship with your family doctor / PCP [Primary Care Physician] is an important part of your life. Without...
Read MoreA Brush With Death
Daniel had been looking forward to it all day. The movie would start at 7:30 pm, and he planned to...
Read MoreLakeside Living – August 2022
Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com The Lake Chapala Society host Open Circle every Sunday at 10:30am, a popular community gathering in Ajijic,...
Read MoreI Never Had a Horse
I never had a horse. My wife, who grew up on an acreage in Iowa, had six of them over...
Read MoreYour Gay Granddaddy Tells The Family Secrets
My mother always outdid the other mothers in our 1950’s Washington, D.C. middle-class neighborhood. Especially in preparing extravagant meals for...
Read MoreA Dark Prince of Colombia
In Cali, Colombia, Alberto Hernán Guerra, a young man suddenly found himself as head of the substantial family business when...
Read MoreLife In The Laugh Lane – August 2022
The Electric Fishermen Nature is my next-door neighbor. My outdoor kitchen/deck faces a marsh and the mountains. If something drops...
Read MoreIf Our Pets Could Talk – August 2022
Many times a pet will let you know he is not feeling well. We need to learn and recognize signs...
Read MoreUlterior Motives
It was nearing dark on a sultry summer evening during my fourth season as a National Park service ranger on...
Read MoreVexations and Conundrums – August 2022
Abundant Joy We have had our hillside home here overlooking Lake Chapala for twenty-one magical years. It is hard to...
Read MoreStreets of Mexico – Agosto 2022
Teresa Urrea She was the Mexican Joan of Arc. In 1889, when she was 16 years old, Teresa Urrea suffered...
Read MoreThe Criminal and Me
In early 1972, when I was almost 19 and my parents were divorcing, I chose to live with my father....
Read MoreEditor’s Page – August 2022
One Nation? I was born into a staunch Republican family. My mother signed me up for Teenage Republicans, and my...
Read MorePoetry Niche – July 2022
HAIKU A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature...
Read MoreProfiling Tepehua – July 2022
A PROFILE OF A WOMAN. (A Tepehua Story). My name is woman, I have the face of poverty. Like so...
Read More“He who feeds a hungry animal, feeds his own soul.”
Here at Lakeside, there is a need wherever we go. This article educates us on the Food Bank for Animals....
Read MoreVerdant View – July 2022
JULY “Answer July—Where is the Bee—Where is the Blush—Where is the Hay? Ah, said July—Where is the Seed—Where is the...
Read MoreBlind Date
Sue Schools playfully describes just another date night for the expats of Lakeside.
Read MoreThe Brutal End
Herbert Piekow delves into Mexico’s brutal history, exploring the major conquests of Mexico. And its difficult past.
Read MoreFidelity, Wherefore Art Thou?
A couple of months ago, I went back to California to get vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. In Mexico, I...
Read MoreLakeside Living – July 2022
Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com The Lake Chapala Society host Open Circle every Sunday at 10:30am, a popular community gathering in Ajijic,...
Read MoreMurderous Addictions
Getting Them Before They Get Us Addictions can kill you. I know. I almost died. It was not until a...
Read More“From Physics Comes Beauty”
Fred Mittag, examines how the laws of physics come to bear on the world of music.
Read MoreLet’s Get Physical
When Olivia Newton-John reached #1 with “(Let’s Get) Physical” in 1981, we all knew she wasn’t urging us to become...
Read MoreLife in the Laugh Lane – July 2022
I Thought I Was Going To Live Alone I moved to the countryside near Sansai, eight miles out of Chiangmai....
Read MoreRamblings From The Ranch – July 2022
Wendy’s Story This past April The Ranch was contacted by a man that claimed he needed to move back to...
Read MoreVexations and Conundrums – July 2022
Politics, Religion, Toilet Tissue Visits to my mother in Louisiana are full of surprises. Two of my sisters take turns...
Read MoreStreets of Mexico – July 2022
Lázaro Cárdenas “I made an effort to serve my country… with greater commitment to the needy people,” Lázaro Cárdenas wrote...
Read MoreThe World Is Made Of Plastic
Dr. Lorin Swinehart examines how pervasive plastic is in our lives, and how it has entered the food chain. Everything...
Read MoreEditor’s Page – July 2022
Dying for Action The one thing these current times will not be remembered as is the “Age of Reason.” I...
Read MorePoetry Niche – June 2022
In this month’s Ojo you will see two pages dedicated to poetry. It is the Poetry Niche, and we have...
Read MoreMirage de el Dorado – Complex Civilizations?
On 13 August 2005 two scholars, Eduardo Neves, a Brazilian, and James Peterson, Anthropology Department chairman at the University of...
Read MoreTogetherness
Recently, Judy and I celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary. The event prompted a number of queries from folks wanting us...
Read MoreFather’s Day Without Rogelio
Daria Hilton shares her story of a neighbor who became a father figure to her. She starts by saying: I...
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