Snow Mail By Chuck Pattinian After 17 glorious winters at Lakeside in Ajijic we spent the last winter in the snow infested lake-effect region of upstate New York. Why? It’s complicated, the reasons not for this writing. The lake we enjoy during the summer closes down in the winter, although some folks do live
Sky High By Chuck Pattinian Cerro Garcia, the dormant volcano across from Ajijic, has taunted me for 17 years to get off the couch and visit. Over those years I’ve developed a defense why I shouldn’t. Hikers have said it is a long, dangerous and exhausting climb. Others have said that strange cooking goes
Time Warp By Chuck Pattinian We left our house in upstate New York for the Buffalo airport some 70 miles away in a thunderous rain storm and a luminous sky. It was 5:45 am. The wind shear was angry and relentless as we fish tailed towards the neon lights of the big city. The
