The Anniversary By Robb Howard “David please, I want to celebrate my anniversary,” Lori pleaded. “I want us to have a special time.” It was her fifth anniversary and it was the fourth anniversary of their meeting. Lori had met David when she was celebrating her first anniversary. She had taken herself out to a […]
A Life Measured In Snowballs By Bonnie Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com Snowballs. It’s odd how commonplace things, things as simple as snowballs can conjure up long forgotten memories. As I write this I realize a lifetime can be measured in many ways; for me, it is measured in snowballs. Three weeks ago, in Mexico, where I
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Who is Anita? Anita is many different things to various people. She is an educator for the young and some adults, instructing them about proper respect and care for animals. She sometimes is a family counselor/confidant when a person is having a difficult time dealing with problems at home.
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JOSS By Kenneth John Clarke Joss1 Returning to his village of Nam Hkek near Burma’s Salween River, Ko Tat walked through the jungle following the clear stream that flowed into Khem lagoon. As he arrived in an open clearing and stepped off the path to relieve himself under a tall banyan tree, he heard the
The Fiesta Latina is Coming Soon! Contact info: Blue, mexicoblue@prodigy.net.mx, 766-5023 There’s only one month left to buy tickets for the upcoming Lake Chapala Society fund raiser, Fiesta Latina, scheduled for February 4th from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the LCS. Attendance is limited to 20 tables of 10 each and tickets are selling
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: At a friend’s urging, I read Paul Jackson’s December column, “Thunder on the Right,” and found a new level of egregious falsehood in publication. Jackson recites a list of accusations against President Obama, each one of which is a product either of ignorance or willful distortion. “Thunder on the
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LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LIAISONS Presidente de Chapala, Sr. Jesús Cabrera Jiménez, has set up an efficient task force of six people to be a liaison unit between the foreign community and our Mexican Municipality. A list of liaison members is: Ing. Carlos Octavio Mendoza Ruiz, Director of Tourism with the Mayor’s office in our City Hall.
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) AN UNCHANGED VILLAGE Kathryn Cox Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing such wonderful articles about such a wonderful part of the world. Katina Pontikes, the author of An Unchanged Village, is my sister. I fell in love with Lake Chapala through
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Understanding the Land By Kay Davis Imagine the Lake Chapala landscape 40,000 years ago. Fossil evidence shows that ancestral mammoths, mastodons, camels and horses roamed the area before the basins were filled by water. At night the landscape was illuminated by the glow of scores of volcanoes in a zone 150 miles wide. This
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