The Lord God Bird, R.I.P. Death Stalks The Anthropocene World By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “There is terrible evil in the world. It comes from men. Men will never rest until they’ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.” —Richard Adams Watership Down One would almost anticipate hearing weeping, wailing, and lamentations across the […]
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New Year Wisdom By Judy Dykstra-Brown From the Ojo Archives After going to a New Year’s party for a few hours, I came home to welcome in the New Year online with a friend. I was railing on about the fact that a prompt site for which I wished to download an app only
Over Coffee For Jeremy Monroe, in memoriam I’ll have another cup of coffee please and one for the debonair man whose words are wisps of steam hovering above my cup; whose words are tiny cohetes, tightly packed with long experience and deep knowing, bursting over the Ajijic plaza; whose words are rocketing from Mexican
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star A Personal New Year Message to Carl Sagan By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@aol.com We at Lakeside and around the world are about to complete one year and begin another one. It is something we “humans” have been doing for half a million years. Indeed, we are time travelers. And yet, we
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My Life as a Spotlight Whore By Tom Nussbaum I’ve always been a spotlight whore. Performing never frightened me. Having an audience didn’t scare me. But there always had to be one underlying condition: I had to have some control of the situation, like costume details or amount of frontal nudity. My recent forays
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Requiem For Stanley By Bernie Suttle “Ya’ goin’ to the service for Stanley?” Bart asked Ralph. “Sure. He was part of our society. Ralph’s vestige of a brogue gave evidence of his land of birth many years ago. He declared. “Sure, it’s a proper day for a burial with the grisly gray of the
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I Would Have Been a Nazi By David Ellison The revelation came as a slap in the face. I’d been teaching my high school unit on WW II and the Holocaust when it hit me: I would have been a Nazi. Yes, I, a passionate long-time progressive activist and educator, would have been a
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Editor’s Page By Victoria Schmidt We cannot move! Last Monday I took a cab from the corner of Farmacia Guadalajara in Ajijic, to my doctor’s office in Riberas. Traffic was crawling in each direction bumper-to-bumper. Usually, it opens up around the horrible and dangerous intersection at Walmart. But it did not. Both sides of
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An Exclusive Tequila Tour Like No Other Submitted by Carole Baker Assistant Community Facilitator for Jaltepec. Centro Educativo Jaltepec, the only institution in Mexico to grant a Technical Degree in Hoteleria and Hospitalidad is introducing a fundraising venture that will continue to help us support the students of Jaltepec. These young Mexican women will
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Women of the Irish Rising;Women of the Irish Rising;a People’s History Book Review by Herbert W. Piekow Most of us know Michael Hogan as a writer of history, philosophy and as a teacher; particularly we know him as the author of the bestselling, Irish Soldiers of Mexico, which was the basis of an MGM
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