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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Making Tequila   The Siete Leguas tequila distillery is located in Atotonilco El Alto, about two hours’ drive east of Guadalajara, and this family-owned distillery drips with tradition and pride. Although most well-known tequila brands are now owned by multinational corporations, more than 100 distilleries still make nearly 1,000 brands […]

Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Are We Headed for a Technological Dystopia?   We have often envisioned a time when we would have to endure a world taken over by technology. Such has been the theme of much science-fiction literature and films. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis envisioned a holocaust-like underworld where workers were subservient to

Growing Old Courtesy of Jim Cook   Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His wisdom God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys and other things thus doing more walking. And God looked down and saw that it was good. Then God saw there was another

America Is One Mixed-Up Word! By G.T. Finlay   Few words in the English language have such a diverse meaning and emotion as “America” when used as a substitute for the U.S. As recently as 1991, Webster’s dictionary defined America as “the two continents of North and South America extending from” etc. And that was

I See Things   The two of blue is one and the light in the right has gone The day no longer exists to cast long shadows So I hold onto the memory of beauty that it did see And hence the left it holds the key To focus not on thee But things that

Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Dixie Swim ClubBy Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie WootenDirected by Barbara Clippinger   These authors worked together on TV’s “Golden Girls” and there is a sitcom quality about the cute one-liners in this play about female friendship. The five characters came together as members of the college swim

Red Bird     A red bird sits alone on a branch, he sits alone, he does not sing. It is a moment lost in time black branch blue sky red bird. There is no fruit upon the branch, only a cankered pod a knot of wood and a bright red bird who sits alone

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: In the latest issue of Ojo Del Lago I read yet another biased political piece by Marita Noon. (Keystone Pipeline). I presume your magazine is not a political publication so therefore why is there no alternative viewpoint to hers? Her latest piece is full of half truths which

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “To Be a Fool”   Issac Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature, includes in The Collected Stories, the charming tale, “The Spinoza of Market Street.” Dr. Nahum Fischelson, a scholar and son of “the late Rabbi of Tishjevitz,” lives alone in a garret

Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Mario de Jesús M. O.   Because this little guy has made such amazing progress in the past three years, we at Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago want to update you on his status and well being. Although from the photo Mario would appear to not be