The Time Has Come To Rein In Big Business By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” H.G. Wells Corporate behemoths have conquered the United States of America and much of the rest of the world. They
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Lake Chapala Writers Conference By Herbert W. Piekow A Time for Writing and Inspiration Some people think that writing is easy. The assumption is we can read, therefore we can write, besides we graduated from school. However, good writing is much more than putting your name at the top and filling the screen or
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Little Pearl By Peter Basson Today he would walk out the door and he wouldn’t come back. In two days he was shipping Stateside. For most sailors this meant a last Bacchanalian night out in the bars and clubs but for Jack it meant only a mouthful of bile and a grinding knot in
Southern Appeal By Joaquin Hawkins Why is it that I, indeed many others too, find comfort in a country older than mine, in an alien culture? What is there down Mexico way that beckons the heart and mind? (For me, one reason is that I do not need to continually spell, pronounce nor explain
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The article by Kathy Koches in the November, 2014 issue of El Ojo del Lago, under the title of “Independence,” may be one of the most important El Ojo del Lago has ever published. Critical thinking skills almost don’t exist among the public today, and that is by
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com January 2015 PAST EVENTS IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT….. ….Well, actually it wasn’t stormy, but it was certainly dark. The Jaltepec Centro Educativo big annual fundraising dinner last month had quite a time of it when the electrical power went off at
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Children’s Art Program By Garry Musgrave A Brief History of the Children’s Art Program The story of the Children’s Art Program starts with one remarkable person… Neill James. In 1943, she came to Ajijic to recuperate from an injury suffered in Michoacán. She fell in love with the people and the place, and
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Quips By Max Bird I believe Ojo’s readers would like to hear about my experience with near death. Also, my article will serve to keep bird lovers on the lookout for early warning signs of illness. I am a pneumonia survivor. Not many parrots can tell you this, as we drop dead rather quickly.
Internet Quizzes By Kathy Koches Those of us who play on the Internet, especially FaceBook, have probably taken at least one of the quizzes that seem to pop up frequently. I just recently took one that told me that the song that described me was “Wild Thing,” what region of the US my speech
Señor Bag Man His long shadow has an attitude all its own, the audacity that comes from knowing the path, no tale to drag along, no cumbersome baggage, nothing but the sun on the Bag Man’s back. Idly mapping his morning destination, as if the day, After slipping out from beneath a blanket
