Ojo Del Lago

The Pact By Mel Goldberg   Phillip stopped walking and grumbled to his friend Arthur, “We should’ve climbed up Camelback and jumped off the cliff.” His dry throat made him sound like coarse sandpaper scraping wood. The deep lines on his face made him appear older than his seventy-six years. They left five marks in […]

Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Awakening   During the fiercest times of the pandemic, my life took on a Rip Van Winkle quality. My husband and I were those individuals who withdrew into a shell of true isolation. We kept our sanity with rituals like a daily balcony happy hour, complete with a jam

Celebrations By Judy Dykstra-Brown   One of my two dearest friends once told me that both of them thought I had always had an air of entitlement. This was a shock to me as from the inside out, I’ve always felt like I had to earn every bit of success or recognition I’ve ever received and that

Searching for Daniel Craig By David Adamson Harper   It’s hard to turn on the television these days without seeing Daniel Craig being interviewed about the latest Bond movie. I remember the first time I noticed him, which was in the movie “Munich” (2005). He played one of the Israeli Mossad assassins with a South

Ramblings From The Ranch TLC for Blind Theo By Christina Bennett   One day in October, we arrived at the Ranch to find a scraggly mess of a dog in the play yard — maybe a poodle mix with full dreadlocks. After a visit to the groomer, he turned out to be a beautiful senior

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com HOLA, 2022!!! Are you already wondering where 2021 went? We were so busy flexing our plexus from the confines of 2020 that time went faster than ever. Looking back and reflecting on 2021, it seemed our world was shrugging its shoulders out of a long

Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Madres by Stephanie Alison Walker Directed by Dave McIntosh This is a remarkable play by a young American playwright. Stephanie Alison Walker has set the scene in 1978 Argentina during the brutal regime of President Videla. Anyone who opposed the regime or had left-wing views was “disappeared” and

El Dorado The Explorers Francisco de Orellana- First European to Explore the Amazon River Basin By Robert Drynan   Francisco de Orellana took the side of Francisco Pizarro in the civil war with Diego de Almagro and the young soldier became one of his cousin’s favored leaders. He founded the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador), was

LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 January 2022   “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.” ~Anne Rice The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10:00 AM, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range of presentations.           For more information and

I am in love with Mexican Music … and the musicians By Margie Keane   I have been blown away by Mexican music since arriving in Mexico 17 years ago. Some of these musicians have no formal training, yet they play and sing so beautifully that it makes my heart sing and sometimes makes me