Ojo Del Lago

Some Ruminations On Proust By Jim Tuck   Magnicide is defined as the killing of a prominent person, usually, though not always, by an obscure someone anxious to have his or her brief fling with fame. In literature, we have the spectacle of a magnicide that kills not persons but reputations. Tolstoy claimed Shakespeare was

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Li Bo (701-762)and Tu Fu (712-770)   Poets of course festoon every era in every country, kingdom, and dynasty. Consider China!  Ancient China: The Yuan Dynasty, The Ming Dynasty, The Song…Yet how amazing that the two most illustrious poets should emerge from the Tang Dynasty and were contemporaneous

FROM OUR WEBOARD(Entries from various people)One word to describe Mexico!   Adaptable / Fulfilling / Spicy / Bi-polar / Alive / Rising / Mixed-bag / Surrealistic / Home / Irresistible / Unpredictable / Challenging / Enigma / Beautiful / Dicey / Damaged / Raw / Friendly / Longevity / Slow / Finding Itself / Emerging

Bye-Bye Buddy By Sunny Glessner   My eight-year-old computer was dying, and it was worse than losing my beloved dog. After all, I spent more time with my computer than anyone else, and he knew all my intimate secrets. I tried purging his system. I tried defleaing, er.. defragging.  I would have tried byte-to-bite resuscitation

How Mariachi Got Its Name By Bill Dean   Mariachi music is not to be confused with Gregorian chants. Pope Gregory would not have confused the two (even though he is credited with inventing the chants) because mariachi music was unheard of in the 7th century. But some 1000 years later in Mexico – 1852,

PROFILE: WALTER S WHERELL: My GO TO MAN By Elsa R. Wassermanerwasserman@yahoo.com    You may have seen him strolling down 16 de Septiembre after his volunteer stint at LCS, stopping every few steps to acknowledge a former student or someone he had just met.  Possibly you spotted him at the Balneario in San Juan Cosala

View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com  The Amazing Life of Trails   Driving along the southern shore of Lake Chapala you may glimpse at times a seemingly empty, vine-covered trail. Only ten meters off the highway, these trails run nearly continuously along the highway, unless there is a better jog or jaunt a

My High School Nemesis: The Thin Line By Tom Eck   I met her in my junior year of high school. Arrogant, snobbish and condescending. Patricia was her name –not Pat or Patty —Patricia. If I had been a girl, I would have disliked her even more. She looked a lot like actress Lee Remick,