Ojo Del Lago

LEARNING YOUR DOG’S ALPHA By Ed Tasca       If there is one thing that unites many here in Ajijic, it is dog-ownership and understanding dog behavior. Even those without dogs seem to have a certain natural affection for our furry companions, and an equal curiosity about how dogs think. Now, one of the […]

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM By Richard Rhoda   An interesting article on the psychology of conservatism: “[People displaying] measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and threatening visual images were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism and gun control,” the team wrote in its report, to be published in

The Higher We Went, The Higher We Got By Carol L. Bowman   A plastic bag filled with oval shaped, dried, green leaves made the rounds among the ten of us in the van. We were instructed to take four, crumple them up into a small ball, place the wad between our back molars and

THE GAME OF THE NAME By Mildred Boyd   It is not clear why today’s society seems to consider the word “drunk” taboo. It was not always so. Cowboys and working stiffs used to get frankly drunk on Saturday nights, but such overindulgence was certainly not confined to the lower classes. There must be some

DON’T ASSUME By Mel Goldberg   Angela walked from the hospital toward her car at the end of the dimly lit staff parking lot. She hated the long midnight walk at the end of her Saturday night shift when many of her friends were partying. To save expenses, the hospital had reduced staff to a

1968 – The Year We All Fell Down By Roxanne Sumners Utzman roxanneutzman@hotmail.com   In 1966, two gas stations up on Whittier Boulevard had a gas war and I could fill the tank of my new VW Bug for under $5. My girlfriends and I cruised around town – Beach Boys on the radio, windows

Mahatma Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World. (Courtesy of Angela Cook)   1. Change “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “As human beings, our greatness is not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as

HEAVEN AND HELL By An Anonymous Contributor   A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading

STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D. Healthful Aging   In past issues I wrote about the elderly, the variability and diversity involved in such a stage of life. Much material written about aging focuses on loss.  Although older adult sometimes experience physical, mental, or psychological losses, continued growth and creative expression often mark