Is It Mañana Yet? By Anonymous Mexico is sometimes referred to as “the Land of Mañana.” Believing that it meant “tomorrow,” we then looked in the English to Spanish section. There it was, “tomorrow.” Reassured, we headed for south of the border. Never even wondered why we didn’t find the word when we first
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS: A Hero for all Time By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Bartolome de Las Casas was a simple Spanish priest, willing to risk all, including his very life, in order to blow the whistle on the first and one of the worst incidents of modern genocide, a wave of cruelty, greed and
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Where Am I Now? (Brightly colored doors and bafflingly numbered houses in Ajijic) By David Perry Lawrence I stood lost, cell phone in hand, in the middle of Hidalgo, just a few blocks west of the Ajijic plaza. I had left home scarcely a few minutes earlier, foolishly thinking I could find my friend’s
Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The bidding was short and sweet on this deal from a game played recently at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club in Riberas. But, as is often the case, there was more to the play than was obvious at first glance. North dealt and holding 19 high
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Turning Into Mother By Maggie Van Ostrand “Careful you don’t tear the wrapping paper,” I said to my daughter as she opened her birthday gift. “You can iron the wrinkles out and use it again.” It was at that moment I realized that the unthinkable had happened: I had turned into my mother. How
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Dear Portia —Advice to the Lovelorn, the Overfed and The Deeply Disgruntled Dear Portia: Hey, what is it with all these cold nights we’ve been experiencing here at Lakeside? In the three years I’ve been here, I’ve never seen it so cold. I moved down here from Santa Fe, New Mexico, because I’d gotten
Welcome to Mexico!By Victoria Schmidt I Shall Always Be A Gringa My skin is a porcelain color that never tans, always burns. And my eyes are a blue/grey. And in this land of beautiful brown-skinned and brown-eyed people, I shall always be a gringa. I may get my “permanente;” I can even study and
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Tianguis’d By Antonio Ramblés By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarello www.antoniorambles.com antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Whenever I travel to someplace new the local version of tianguis is always high on my itinerary. It’s virtually guaranteed to deliver an instant lay of the land and a hi-def cultural immersion experience. What is more common to the Lakeside
—IN MERMORIAM— MARLIESE KERRIGAN 1925-2013 Long-time resident Marliese Kerrigan (fondly known locally as “Mona Lisa”) died on April 25, at the age of 87. Born in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany, she studied languages and worked after WWII as an interpreter for the late General George S. Patton, when he was stationed in Bad Nauheim, outside
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: I wish to respond, with feeling, to Sunny Glessner’s witty question What Memory? – (El Ojo del Lago, April 2013) Sunny writes, “My challenge is my memory,” and goes on to say that she has used lists for years, “but now I forget to take the list with
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