Ojo Del Lago

Dancing With Ted By Bonnie L. Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com   The blizzard created mountainous snow drifts and partially covered Sarah’s farm house. It was Sarah and Ted’s retirement gift to each other, their escape from New York City. After many years of renovation it was completed a week before their fiftieth anniversary, the week Ted had

Grumpy, Grouchy, and Griping By Carol A. Curtis   Oh, my god! Another sunny day in Mexico! The almost constant, nice weather puts me in a continual foul mood, and the day has hardly begun. I mean it’s irritating to have the sun foisting its rays down on us so often. What I wouldn’t give

TARAHUMARAS OF COPPER CANYON: An Endangered Species By Karuna   Tarahumara women give birth holding on to a low branch delivering the baby into a nest of grass. A boy’s umbilical cord is buried in the fields to secure a future good farmer; a girl’s, next to the hearth. New mothers go back to work

BRINGING HOPE TO THOSE WHO HAVE NONE —What Hope House is all about! By Kina Dutro   On what I thought was to be a typical Thursday morning, I journeyed to Hope House in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, parked, walked to the entrance and stood helpless as my heart was slowly consumed by three little

Thriller In Ajijic     Rabid Chihuahua Productions presents “Thriller in Ajijic,” a mock-u-mentary about the Organizing and Staging of the International “Thrill The World” Flash-Dance event that happens at exactly the same time, every year, around the world. Using local actors and ordinary folk, the film makers have created a full-length movie covering the

A Circle Of Hell By Gabrielle Blair   There is a place that I have seen,Yes I have seen it, shamed I’ve been.A filthy place of waste and slime,With blue-black gashes in the grime.Lurid colors, sulfurous yellow,Moonscape dead, black-gold lies shallow. Behold the tar sands, not long found,Millennia formed, in surface ground.The mighty, winding river’s

Know Thyself—Say what?! By William Franklin   Someone important said, “Know thyself.” Someone else said, “To thine own self be true.” And Davy Crockett said, “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.” And my Cub Scout Handbook said, “Be square and obey the law of the pack.”   And of course I want to be