The Pedestrians By Teri Saya My awareness and love of the Mexican culture is growing. I have had to adjust to my new environment through observation and quick reflexes. The theater, the mall, the grocery store, pretty much everything is within walking distance to our house here in Mexico. I lived the last 17
Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Meet Pablo Rafael Pablo was born June 29, 2012 to two loving parents. He was born by cesarean and at the moment of birth had to be put on oxygen to help him breath. He would be kept in hospital for two months due to complications. Upon his
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Baby Boomers —Reinventing Retirement in Mexico By Karen BlueReview by Harriet Hart Midlife Mavericks: Women Reinventing Their Lives in Mexico by Karen Blue told the stories of 16 women who moved to Mexico to build better lives, and gave readers “the courage to make significant changes in their lives.” Her new book focuses on
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Less experienced players are often confused by the seemingly interminable number of conventions that have crept into competitive bridge in recent years. When asked, I always advise that, with a few exceptions, they forget about these gadgets until they have acquired the basic principles and then slowly
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A Fling With Fred By Sandy Olson Nancy gave Fred thirty days to decide about leaving his wife. It started as a fling, when they met up at their fortieth high school reunion. Nancy was not a stranger to making quick connections with men. Though married, she took trips alone and had little adventures
Father Hunting In the village of my child all my fathers were Captains and Conductors, men and their workings were forever coming home and leaving. In my village, there were long stretches of empty beach, great white seagulls always out of reach undertows that carried sand castles out to sea My Bogart Daddy became
Baja Brownies By Mikel MillerDonMiguel2@ymail.com On August 21, 2009, Mexico decriminalized personal possession of less than five grams of marijuana. Boomer–an expat living on the Baja Peninsula–decided to try some pot right away. He says his first experience was sharing a joint, and most of his friends in northern Baja were stunned to learn
Dark Encounter By Kathy Price From a distance, I could see the old woman leaning in against the door, smacking it with her open hand, calling out to someone, unseen, inside. Her filthy, ragged dress hung off her spare frame and she radiated desperation. Curious, I continued to watch her as I approached down
NORTH AMERICA: An Oil and Gas Powerhouse By Marita NoonEdited by Frank Callom North America Oil and Gas reserves is growing exponentially mainly because of better sourcing and drilling techniques. Look to Mexico for an example. Mexico has huge oil-and-gas reserves–estimated at 115bn barrels of oil equivalent, comparable to Kuwait’s—but lacks the technology to
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The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) “AMERICAN” IS NOT A LANGUAGE! B. Garrison You have chosen a few, isolated instances and used those to paint every conservative with the same broad brush. You have a forum in this magazine to present your point of view, but instead
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