ONLY IN MEXICO (Perhaps) By Tom Clarkson All in the same week might you experience: —While waiting for your muffler to get fixed, ending up playing with your mechanic’s children and a baby Tejón. —Seeing a guy trimming his toenails with a foot and a half long machete. —While enjoying a drink on a beach […]
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Cocktails With Nefertiti By Herbert W. Piekow The first thing I noticed about her was the leopard spotted blouse and the way the spots moved on her ample breasts as she maneuvered towards where I sat alone enjoying my evening cocktail on Chapultepec Avenue. Most evenings, when I am in my Guadalajara apartment, I like
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Advances in computer technology have greatly improved the enjoyment for duplicate bridge players. Not only are results known within minutes of the conclusion of the game but the hand records are available for participants to compare their results with the other pairs and see where they could
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “The Impossible Dream” Miguel de Cervantes (1564-1616) suffered unceasing failure throughout his life, yet in the only work of Cervantes that is still read, Don Quixote de la Mancha, written in his senior years, while in prison, Cervantes created a character with such a high and noble
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX(Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) MARK SCONCE: Poet And Prince Among Men Mark R. Sconce I am your namesake of sorts I guess. I am not certain how we are related but we must be at some point in the distant past. My fathers family hails from
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Understanding The Land By Kay Davis Imagine the Lake Chapala landscape 40,000 years ago. Fossil evidence shows that ancestral mammoths, mastodons, camels and horses roamed the area before the basins were filled by water. At night the landscape was illuminated by the glow of scores of volcanoes in a zone 150 miles wide. This
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Tenacatita Bay By An Anonymous Contributor Sunrise A final star winks out : old lady moon drives by, sad and alone hunched in her 1989 white Cadillac : she’s off to rest all day in the chateau her second husband left her. Black trees become dark green then lighter green – the whitewash of the sky
Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Psychological Art of Gabriel Mariscal “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –Thomas Merton Art combines imagination, emotion, and reason – which, throughout, guides the educated and refined use of the materials and elements that physically give an art work form. Emotion,
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Let’s do lunch! The other day, a food friend and I decided to run some errands and have lunch. Having lunch at Lakeside can sometimes be a challenge especially during “high” season. I always suggest people to have a plan “A”, and a plan “B.”First of all, when
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The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag Black Elk (1863-1950) Thomas Morgan, the US Commissioner of Indian Affairs, wrote a review after the massacre at a South Dakota creek called Wounded Knee: “It is hard to overestimate the magnitude of the calamity which happened to the Sioux people by the sudden disappearance of the
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