I Can Fly! By Margie Keane When I was a very young girl I loved reading fairy tales. I believed in ogres and witches and I dreamed of beautiful princesses and handsome princes who lived in golden castles surrounded by moats. I believed that everyone lived happily ever after. As I grew older […]
THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX(Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) EDITOR’S PAGE – SEPTEMBER 2016 Tiger lol: This is a beautifully elegant answer to a rather thorny problem: What to do about the people who write laws with titles designed to make them look good, but content which serves mostly to tighten
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Pews By John Thomas Dodds Notwithstanding the pickling and pruning of the average generation the most widely seen cognitive change associated with ageing is that of the Procedural, Episodic, Working, and Semantic memory. The functioning or lack of is uniquely personal and can be of some concern. Personally this memory/recall thing doesn’t really
MARIACHI—The Music of Mexico By June Nay Summers Mariachi music is said to have originated in Jalisco. As far back as the 1860’s, the music was played during wedding ceremonies. The French word for marriage is mariage, and as it was pronounced in Spanish, it sounded like “mariachi.” The music and the men who
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Morning in Ajijic By Teri Saya I am not a morning person. I never have been and never will be. When I was an apprentice carpenter, I had to be on the job by 6 a.m. Thank goodness my Journeyman (supervisor) understood about night owls, his wife was one. He made sure coffee
Mayo Clinic Advisory Courtesy of Glenda Roman A cardiologist determined that heart attacks can be triggered by dehydration. Good Thing To Know. From The Mayo Clinic. How many folks do you know who say they don’t want to drink anything before going to bed because they’ll have to get up during the night? Heart
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Celebration Time! By Terry and Carole Baker At Jaltepec Centro Educativo Tecnico Universitario en Hoteleria, the long awaited Graduation ceremony for the Class of 2016 arrived on August 21st. After two years of hard work, studying, and perseverance this Class is excited not only because of their graduation, their Technical Degree, and seeing the
Hurtful Words By Kathy Koches One of the nicest compliments I’ve ever received was from an author, whom I respect. He called me a “wordsmith.” I much prefer this to being called a “grammar Nazi!” I remember my grandmother telling me the old adage “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything
Steve And Fernando By Tom Nussbaum Is it possible for a middle-class Protestant from Northern Ireland to find love with a quasi-Jewish member of an accomplished Mexican family? Yes, it is. But, like in all relationships, challenges will have to be overcome, hoops will have to be jumped through, and commitment will be
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com October 2016 OPEN CIRCLE Sunday morning finds many Lakeside residents at the Lake Chapala Society and Open Circle, a forum on a variety of stimulating topics. A social hour with coffee and snacks at 10:00 a.m. is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion
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