LAKESIDE LIVING Tod Jonson todoflcs3@yahoo.com Barbara Clippinger clippy1020@gmail.com September 2012 SEPTEMBER is one of the shorter months of the year, only 30 days, but it contains four vividly memorable dates in history: LABOR DAY WEEKEND, MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY (9/16),…. AND no one will ever forget 9/11 and the TWIN TOWERS (another day of infamy), and last, but not least for those of us old enough […]
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The Children’s Art Program Since 1954 when it was started by Neill James, The Children’s Art Program has engaged thousands of Mexican children in exploration of their creative talents. The Program has produced many well-known local artists and helped to position Ajijic as an art colony. The mural honors the Program and the three
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Insight Straight By Jim Tuck The Greatest Short Story Ever Written With due respect to Poe, Maupassant, O. Henry and other masters of the art, my nominee for outstanding short story writer of all time is Somerset Maugham. For one thing, Maugham had the advantage of longevity, living longer than Poe and Maupassant
The Color Of My Life By Carol Bradley “What do you do?” she asked while we slathered warm croissants with fresh preserves in the golden, morning sun. I told her about the city, my job, my days. She was an artist, a florist, a traveller; nothing of real value in the steel, grey
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Dream Hackers By Rob Krakoff Review by Harriet Hart Rob Krakoff’s latest book is a futuristic novel that begins in 2099 when disenfranchised youth are waging a cyber war against their elders who own 83% of the planet’s wealth. Elders, equipped with computational innovations to keep them alive, live in comfortable charter cities while
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: I would like to thank you for having the courage to print the article, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They,” by Vern & Lori Geiger and Eliana Herrerias. The article was eye-opening, while the photo was heartbreaking. Like millions of others, I was already sickened by the basics of bullfighting –that
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The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Perhaps America’s most oft recited couplet belongs to Dorothy Parker: “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses.” This saucy insight undoubtedly led to the development of contact lenses. Ms Parker dashed that off on a cocktail napkin one afternoon at The Algonquin Round
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Letter To The Editor Having recently returned from a visit to Havana on a U.S. passport, I was disappointed to read Paul Jackson’s Cold War-era sentiments on that country in his Thunder on the Right commentary, which I usually enjoy. I found little evidence of the oppressions of Cuba’s communist dictatorship, and instead found a
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The Birth Of A Rock By John Ward Since the dawn of time on planet earth, when rocks were born of cooling magma billions of years ago, or: since about ten thousand years ago, when God thought having stones in his diorama would be good idea, the creation of rocks has always been
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr robmohr@gmail.com Milo Needles – “The Fine Art of Psychological Disclosure” Thomas Merton understood, “Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self … “ Once in a rare while you meet someone who makes you glad to be alive – to be a part of
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