Things That CrawlBy Lucille van Straaten Reading Victoria Schmidt’s story about ‘Things that Crawl’ I was amused, but saddened. Why do humans want to “viciously stomp” on creatures they are not familiar with? Those creatures were here long before we arrived, and are valiantly trying to survive in the world we have created for […]
Survivors By Patricia Hemingway Roy M. Crandall, M for Marion, was my mother’s father. He showed up at our door when I was thirteen, and he was broke and sixty-five and couldn’t work anymore. I don’t believe he had anywhere else to stay while he waited for his old age pension, so he came
Lake Chapala Hospice Lake Chapala Hospice is a community based, nondenominational, non-profit organization, which offers in-home hospice and palliative care to the English-speaking community. Palliative care shifts the focus away from treatment and healing, and onto symptom relief, pain management, and comfort care. Such care has only been legal in Mexico since 2009. Patients
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Cuarto a Cuarto en la Casa (Room to Room in the House) By Margaret Sloan Speaking Household Spanish with the Household Help Do you have telarañas (spider webs) in the corners? Las migas (crumbs) in el comedor (dining room)? Polvo(dust) coating all horizontal surfaces? For those of us, living in Mexico, there is an
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A Chance To Do Good By Herbert W. Piekow In 2010, the Auditorio de la Ribera, our local auditorium, hosted 94 various events from international virtuosi to traditional Jalisco Mariachi, Ballet Folklorico and school graduations. This aging auditorium is in dire need of a more balanced air conditioning system and the stage lighting has
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Our Twisted Way Of Speaking By Tommy Clarkson It would “appear” as quite obvious, to those who know me, that I like to play with words. Accordingly – in an attempt to, again, apply logic to our English language – if that lack of awareness, on their part, were to go away, said cognition
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RAYNMOND K. MULHERN b. 6 October 1921 d. 18 August 2011 Ray Mulhern was born and raised in Woodward, Iowa, in 1921, Ray enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the original Underwater Demolition Teams, forerunners of today’s Navy Seals. A long term Lakeside resident, until shortly after the death of his
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Nudine The Quiver Queen By Bob Tennison “Texas is the Bible belt and Dallas is the Buckle.” This stupid song was sung by the gospel choir that came on the radio just before the noon news. TV had not as yet taken over our lives. Luckily I never heard the song again, so I
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Lakeside Living Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com October 2011 PAST EVENTS A cheerful crowd attended a story-telling event at LCS to benefit Jim Collum’s Education Fund, and listened to an afternoon of readings from Jim’s works by well-known community actors and writers Jim Tipton, Liz White, Fred Koesling
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) WELCOME TO MEXICO – JUNE 2011 * Wes I’ll buy that loose change off you by the pound if you live in the US and the price and shipping is right. I collect coins, so hoarding them is a terrible habit
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