Ojo Del Lago

UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer The Millennials Are Coming!   I am a baby boomer, as are many readers of the Ojo.  We grew up in simpler times, remember communism, the assassinations and Vietnam war protests of the 1960’s, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Reagan years in the 1980’s.  The events and trends

Letters To The Editor   Dear Sir: I’ve waited a few weeks after the article in “Ojo del Lago” written by Robert Nipper, to see what impact it would have on people, and, boy did it ever! Mr. Nipper wrote, using the Preamble to the Constitution, what it means to be a Constitutional Conservative. The

The Joy Of Language By Cassandra Torres   “We are all born (I believe) with the resources to speak and understand language. After that, we are free to express however and whatever we want.” – Noam Chomsky. For the past three weeks the Language Institute of the American School of Guadalajara offered a summer program,

El Cadejo By Roberto Moulun   The villages followed one another like pretty sisters on their way to school. We were in the highlands, and the fields were blond with wheat. Here and there, as if they had been planted in error by Albino, banana trees shivered. They looked like they could use a drink.

It’s Their Fault! By Gene Raymer   Ask any American what’s wrong with the US and he or she will say, “It’s their fault.” “They” are always the other people. No one acknowledges any personal responsibility. Big business says government regulations and employee demands force them to send jobs overseas. Or spending $200,000 for a

“A spreading oak looms high above the graves And rustling, stirs. . .” Alexander Pushkin, 1826 Trans., James Falen The Day After the Day of the Dead (November 3, 2013)   By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com     A taxi drops off a passenger at the Ajijic cemetery—El Panteón Diego couldn’t join them yesterday; The plane

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton (Rerun by Request) “A Test”   In 1964 I was living in San Francisco, in a boarding house on California Street, two blocks up from Chinatown, where I paid ninety dollars a month for room and board. I spent most evenings at the famous City Lights bookstore,

Who Was The First President Of The USA? By An Anonymous Contributor   Think back to your history books. The United States declared its independence in 1776, yet George Washington did not take Office until April 30, 1789. So who was running the country during these initial years of our young country? It was the

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Sounds of Mexico   You’ll never have to be alone in Mexico. Especially when you live in a village. All I have to do is step outside my door, and I see my neighbors walking down the street, and I hear their greeting “Buenos Dias, Como estas?, “Hola vecino!”

Why Did You Leave Me, Mr. Camus? By Liz Larrabee   Madness would have mercifully ended the reign of my martyr motherhood had it not been for my irrepressible flights, undone at dawn. Our adjoined garret rooms above a rowdy cabaret on the Left Bank, my ancient Smith Corona clacks in duet with Hemingway’s. Fitzgerald’s