Ojo Del Lago

The Greatest Lover Of Last Tuesday By Neil McKinnonBook Review by Ed Tasca   Neil McKinnon blessedly answers for this writer the mysterious mathematical enigma: whatever happened to male-female comedy duos. The answer seems to be that they’ve gone literary, and appear as the two principal characters of Neil’s new book, The Greatest Lover of […]

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt “It only leaks when it rains.”   Mexico in rainy season; the mountains are a lush green, flowers are blooming, bugs are flying, and the rain has been fairly constant this year. Everyone says “Es bueno para el lago.”  (It is good for the lake.) Having lived in Mexico

How A Chicken Gets Across The Road By Carol L. Bowman   My heart pounded. I struggled for the courage to cross like a local. Stepping from the curb, I focused on the opposite side and walked and prayed and kept walking, waiting to hear the crunch of metal meeting bone. The trick—never look to

Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Christopher R. V.   Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago’s column was “on vacation” over the summer, but there was no vacation for those volunteers who work at the “clinics” every other week to reimburse our families for their medical expenses. Illness doesn’t get a vacation, unfortunately, and

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir,  The association between El OJO del LAGO and NCA (Los Niños de Chapala y Ajjijc A.C.) is of long-standing, and immensely valued. Lakesiders are by nature a compassionate and generous group, needing simply to be aware of the need in order to extend a helping hand. NCA’s continuing

JUNALUSKA AND ANDREW JACKSON: A Hero and a Scoundrel By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   During the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama, a Creek POW being interrogated by Major General Andrew Jackson lunged at him with a knife. The Cherokee chief Junaluska tripped the attacker, saving Jackson’s life, an act of heroism that he

LONNY RIDDLE SHIHAN —Honoring the Life of a True Samurai Submitted by Cindy Paul   Most Lakesiders are unaware that for more than a generation, in the Sierra Madre mountains surrounding Lake Chapala, there lived a true, modern-day Samurai. His name was Lonny Riddle, but most of the time, others called him by his title,

The Dearly Departed By Katina Pontikes   I am one of those people who read the death notices regularly. I want to know if acquaintances of mine have departed this earthly existence, and what circumstances caused them to win the Daily Death Lotto. It pays to check the paper each day for news of those