Ojo Del Lago

Good Hope By Harriet Hart   What prompted me to choose South Africa as a destination? Perhaps it was those geography quizzes at Carlton School, a one room schoolhouse on the Canadian prairie. Every morning the teacher rolled down a map of the world provided by the Neilson Chocolate bar company, and some lucky student

Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Juan De Dios – “Juanito” At Home….     Now 11 years old; has been with niños incapacitados since just after birth —diagnosed by in-utero ultrasound with hydrocephalus—this used to be called “water on the brain,” but actually is not water but spinal fluid that is supposed to

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   Powerful Information: a British Society specializing in grass roots International Development. info@powerfulinformation.org Much documented explains the marriage of poverty and illiteracy. Domestic violence and other ills of society that illiteracy breeds.  “What is it like to be illiterate?” It is virtually impossible to visualize

Women And Mexico By Bill Dean   Coatlicue — Let’s start at the beginning. There is a sculpture of Coatlicue, the “Mother of the Gods,” in Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology. She wears a skirt covered with serpents and has claws for feet. According to ancient mythology, Coatlicue was sweeping the temple floor one windy

The Gryphon Trio and Attacca Quartet at this February’s Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival By Jim Cooper   The last two weeks of February in Ajijic are a cultural oasis because of the Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival which returns every year to thrill us with outstanding world class musicians.  This year they have managed

Alone In Her Room By Gloria Palazzo   All these people at the convalescent home, probably 15 at any given time, living in a state that in no way resembles the life I had been living, and yet they need us who are not them, who are socked away, where for the most part they

Musings From The Quebec Wilderness By Gabrielle Blair   About fifty kilometers due south as the crow flies, of the mining town, Val D’Or in Quebec, is a beautiful lake with the sing-song name of Lac Otanibi. Here, a far cry from the bustle of Ajijic, is where my husband and I have our wilderness

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Reverse Culture Shock   I am here again–in the United States. Each time I have returned I have suffered culture shock in reverse.  Nothing about the United States feels real to me anymore.  This trip, I stay with friends while I have medical check ups.  First we must take