Focus on Art By Rob Mohr A Fantasy of Color and Texture: The pastel paintings of Anita Lee “The motivation for my seemingly empty landscapes is discovering a way to create a peaceful, serene world removed from the insanity of the one we are captured in. I strive to create a fantasy of a […]
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum In the summer months Anita had an increase of adult dogs & cats being turned-in to her. The months of October and November was a period of prolonged “puppy season”. In just a two week period alone, Anita accepted a nursing mother dog with her 10 puppies, another mother
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood Unfinished Business As I write my final column in this series, I see much unfinished business in This World of Ours. OUR ENVIRONMENT. Climate change will become a survival issue for millions as growing urbanization and consumerism strain fragile ecosystems despite a leveling of population as fertility
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Save Your Own Life – Today “One day you are fine and the next day your life is over,” says 44 year young Laureen, “and my attitude was always, I have a little diabetes but I can eat sugar.” Laureen is now on kidney
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Viva la Vida LocaBy 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 work. He and his
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Mario Alberto Valencia Guzmán Shown here with his mother and older brother is 13-year old Mario Alberto Valencia Guzmán. Mario Alberto lives with his family, including another brother and his father, in Ajijic. You may have seen his father Pedro at Jara Hardware store where he works,
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Going North? The one thing about living in Mexico that unifies all ex-pats is our need for that certain special item that isn’t available in Mexico. Whenever any of us travel back north, we are inundated with requests from other ex-pats for items to be picked up in
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC Money and Marriage Another year is winding down, and as we approach the Christmas season I’m always struck by the focus on materialism, buying things to show our love for each other. Giving and getting as a measure of caring. Christmas spending is a big portion
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson After an enjoyable summer in Ontario, herself and I returned to Lakeside in mid-October for our sixth Winter here. As always, we quickly got back into playing in the games run by the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club. They say that making a contract of 1 No
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com The Invisible Hamish Line Before we moved to Mexico, we lived in a series of houses in different neighborhoods in Maine. When we were first married and broke, we lived in a tenement-style apartment complex. All the porches looked out on a common driveway so we could
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