Little Pearl By Peter Basson Today he would walk out the door and he wouldn’t come back. In two days he was shipping Stateside. For most sailors this meant a last Bacchanalian night out in the bars and clubs but for Jack it meant only a mouthful of bile and a grinding knot in
Southern Appeal By Joaquin Hawkins Why is it that I, indeed many others too, find comfort in a country older than mine, in an alien culture? What is there down Mexico way that beckons the heart and mind? (For me, one reason is that I do not need to continually spell, pronounce nor explain
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The article by Kathy Koches in the November, 2014 issue of El Ojo del Lago, under the title of “Independence,” may be one of the most important El Ojo del Lago has ever published. Critical thinking skills almost don’t exist among the public today, and that is by
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com January 2015 PAST EVENTS IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT….. ….Well, actually it wasn’t stormy, but it was certainly dark. The Jaltepec Centro Educativo big annual fundraising dinner last month had quite a time of it when the electrical power went off at
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Children’s Art Program By Garry Musgrave A Brief History of the Children’s Art Program The story of the Children’s Art Program starts with one remarkable person… Neill James. In 1943, she came to Ajijic to recuperate from an injury suffered in Michoacán. She fell in love with the people and the place, and
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Quips By Max Bird I believe Ojo’s readers would like to hear about my experience with near death. Also, my article will serve to keep bird lovers on the lookout for early warning signs of illness. I am a pneumonia survivor. Not many parrots can tell you this, as we drop dead rather quickly.
Internet Quizzes By Kathy Koches Those of us who play on the Internet, especially FaceBook, have probably taken at least one of the quizzes that seem to pop up frequently. I just recently took one that told me that the song that described me was “Wild Thing,” what region of the US my speech
Señor Bag Man His long shadow has an attitude all its own, the audacity that comes from knowing the path, no tale to drag along, no cumbersome baggage, nothing but the sun on the Bag Man’s back. Idly mapping his morning destination, as if the day, After slipping out from beneath a blanket
Shoulder Pain? By Lowell Birch It is a surprise to many that the shoulder is the most common human injury. The mechanisms of injury are a variety of accidents and activities such as a slip and fall, a car accident or simply carrying a heavy suitcase to the ticket counter. Whenever we exceed our
Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Experienced duplicate players can usually tell by late in the contest just how their game is going. If it’s going well, they will try to maintain their position by playing the balance of the hands conservatively; if it’s going poorly, they may throw caution to the wind
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