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Welcome to Mexico!By Victoria Schmidt License Plates   As with many ex-patriots, we recently struggled with the problem of owning a foreign plated car. With the new immigration rules, we would need to have a Mexican plate on our van. As we began to explore our options, our car provided an answer. The car’s computer

Free Ranging Crime In Mexico By Roberta Richrobertarich@telus.net   Don’t get me wrong. I love Mexico. In fact, so much I bought a house here. But the crime!? It’s got to stop. Let me tell you about the most recent incident. This year I bought, along with two of my neighbors, the land adjoining our

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com   A lot of us who come from developed parts of the world take our drinking water for granted.  We have had to become a little more mindful of it since moving here, but still do not realize the problems faced by some of our more unfortunate Mexican neighbors. In

Wisdom Of The Pueblo (Based on a true story) By Margaret Van Every   I break into a sweat whenever I recall that night last December because I can’t think about it without reliving it. When you measure terror, two minutes is forever. It was several weeks before Navidad. Carlitos and I boarded a bus

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton Kissing Can Slow the Aging Process   Around the holidays I wrote a column about kissing, with a focus on famous movie kisses. That generated a lot of pleasant comments, and so with the romantic days of early summer upon us, I thought I would revisit that

Mexico’s  Pre-Hispanic Cuisine By Virginia Miller   Meso-American cuisine is one of the oldest in the world. Carbon 14 samplings establish its beginning in Mexico 6,000 years ago. Elaborate pottery, cooking utensils and obsidian knives and spoons attest to its importance. The Mexican cuisine evolved around corn. Being simple in its raw materials, developed its

Rainbirds Are Calling By Ed Tasca   The rainbirds are here and that means the beginning of the rainy season. As you know, rainbirds are not really birds at all and no one has ever seen one chirring.  They’re really insects I’m told, probably cutter ants sawing down your cypress tree. When the rain does

Historic San Juan Cosala By Carol Curtis   What started as a very windy March morning turned into a perfect day for a walking tour of San Juan Cosalá.  This traditional, small Mexican village is often overlooked by the expats who know it only for the fish restaurants, the strip of topes, and Viva Mexico.

Awakenings By Russell S. Dowdrussell@pdisearch.com   I had one of the most interesting days of my life at Super Lake the other day when I was exiting an aisle and there stood  a woman, starring at me,  hauntingly, wantonly, and I could not divert my eyes from her. Oh, what to do, what to do?

LAKESIDE LIVING   Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   June 2014     PAST EVENTS TRUTHS AND LIES FROM THE NAKED STAGE The Long Weekend is a Naked Stage reading of a comedy. The play was directed by Don Chaloner.    Front, left to right: Avril Stephenson and Roseann Wilshere Back, left to right:  Dick