Ojo Del Lago

Are We Really Out Of Iraq? By Kelly Hayes-Raitt   I’m going back in August to find out. Iraq first captured me in February 2003, five weeks before my country captured it. I returned three months after the US-led invasion to find the Iraqis who had so deeply touched me. I wrote about my encounters

Mexico’s French Pastry War By Herbert W. Piekow   In the first twenty years of Independence from Spain, Mexico averaged a President per year and in 1828 Mexico City saw four violent days as forces of Presidential candidates Manuel Gómez Pedraza and Vincente Guerrero Saldaña fought in the streets. When the dust had once more

“Hand-Me-Down Female Bun-Maker” By John Ward   It transpires that I have an extraordinary type of memory called “pre-natal cognition.” I am able to remember everything about my birth and before, from the time nature put a brain into my Cranium. My first memory was seeing my bottom half, which looked like a salamander. For

What Memory? By Sunny Glessner   Isn’t everyone challenged somehow today? My challenge is my memory. I can remember my name but maybe not yours. Seriously. And I do mean seriously. We all know about using lists. Well, I’ve done that for years including my bucket list, but now I forget to take the list

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)   Those who managed to tear their eyes away from Julie Christie long enough to pay attention to character development probably noticed that Zhivago was not only a doctor but a poet, too. And let’s not forget that when Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for

The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag “Seductress of Minds and Bodies”   Ayn Rand’s sex life was consistent with her political philosophy. She sought only selfish gratification. She called her inner circle the “Collective,” an odd name. She was from Russia and preached rugged individualism, perhaps in reaction to the Communist Revolution – but