Ojo Del Lago

The Street Performer By Teri Saya   Many of the major intersections here in Mexico have street performers. If you are the first car to hit the red light, you get the best seat in the house for these three to five minute shows. I’ve seen acrobats, dancers, drummers, jugglers, and fire-eaters. That’s just the

The Bunker Mentality In Albania By Carol L. Bowman   Drita lowered her head, trying to hide her tears. She stood in front of a mushroom shaped dome protruding five feet above ground. The deteriorated steel and concrete enclosure with a width of six feet at its broadest point caused many claustrophobic panics in times

A Tale Of Two Coats By Phyllis Ewing   My parents divorced when I was eight years old. In those days it was unusual for a woman to stand her ground and step out on her own, especially with a child to support. Women were entering the work place in force and my mother became

LAKESIDE LIVING   Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   July 2014   PAST EVENTS A JOYFUL ESL CELEBRATION Twenty two teachers, along with 300 students, family and friends, celebrated another completed school year of the Lake Chapala Society’s English program for the Mexican community on May 24.     Pictured are Nestor Solano and

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir: I cannot believe the article by R Nipper in the May 2014 issue of El Ojo!  Not only is he a bigoted jerk, he has no knowledge of North American history other than the idiotic teachings of the B . . . . . . . who wrote

An Angel In An Unexpected Place By Gabrielle Blair   Peculiar travel arrangements are dancing lessons from God —  Kurt Vonnegut He wasn’t that young – late fifties perhaps. We were late arriving at Mexico City, our plane having been delayed in Toronto for nearly an hour. We knew it would be tight crossing from Terminal

A Letter From Helen Keller May 9, 1933   To the Student Body of Germany: History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them. You can burn my books and the books

Chapala   Smart friends will think you’re rather chic When you retire to Ajijic. They’ll know that’s “where the water runs” ‘Neath temperate skies and gentle suns. May even know Chapala Lake Invites retirement for its sake; Where anytime you might request a Margarita and siesta. Soft zephyrs blowing off the lake Confirm again a

But What I Really Meant Was… By Kathy Koches   Several years ago, before moving to Mexico, my husband and I took a vacation in the Yucatan. We thought we spoke a little Spanish, because I had taken several years of it in school and my husband worked in a Mexican restaurant for many years.

The Conservative Corner Stealing an American dream one national monument at a time By Marita Noon   Thanks to the EPA’s announcement of the new C02 regulations and the Bergdahl prisoner swap, excessive executive power has been prominently featured in the news cycle. Yet, just last month another story of executive overreach got little coverage.