An American Migrant In Mexico By William Haydon I once described San Blas, my seaside home for more than two years now, as a mosaic of broken tiles, and I considered myself to be the most broken tile of them all. It must be regarded, then, as a great measure of this town’s ability […]
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Letters From Famous People In 1951, E. B. White—the novelist responsible for, most notably, Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little—was accused by the ASPCA of not paying his dog tax and, as a result, “harboring” an unlicensed dog. He responded by way of the following delightful letter. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “Complete in Itself” I like public transportation. I would like to gather together in one large room all of the people I have met, particularly on buses, with whom I have enjoyed, sometimes for several hours, a relationship that was pleasurable, that held without doubt a
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Viva la Vida Loca en Mexico By Sergio Drumond SERGIO DRUMOND is an artist, theologian and writer. Born in Brazil, he worked in Europe and Asia as a book illustrator, cartoonist, painter and animator. He also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and Thailand, teaching art as well as helping NGOs with social and relief
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A New Lease—On Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. What’s My Gut Have To Do With My Brain? So for years I knew I had various sensitivities to different foods. Of course standard medical tests could never definitively prove that the causes of my many health issues were food based. I would be
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Mañanitas By Gloria Marthai The tip of the cigarette glows brighter in the darkness as the man draws on it and then touches it to the black powder propellant. The cohete -rocket- swishes high into the air where it explodes in a burst of light, assaulting the early morning stillness. Time and time again
Lakeside Living Column An Excellent Advisory by Shelley Edson (Ed. Note: Shelley will soon be leaving the Ojo, but we thought that by publishing this information, it might greatly help our readers, as well as Tod Jonson and Barbara Clippinger, who will be taking over the column in April.) What is the deadline for
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A Fond Farewell And A Warm Welcome It is with deep regret that we announce that Shelley Edson’s Lakeside Living column will be her last one. Shelley has written the column for some six months and as we never tired of telling her, she hit the ground running and got even faster with each
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Nifty One-Liners Nostalgia is a device that removes the ruts and the potholes from Memory Lane. I just got back from a pleasure trip. I drove my wife to the airport. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Last night our high school band played Beethoven. Beethoven lost,
From The Grapevine By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Lakeside’s Most Popular Wines (Ed. Note: This marks the debut of this column in the Ojo. Welcome, Robert and Noemi!) We did some statistical research to determine the best-selling wines at Lakeside during the last year. As might be expected, the best-selling wines were
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