Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC How Can I Help? Maybe it’s just my age, but lately it seems like I’ve been surrounded by more than the usual number of people with serious health issues. Even I endured my own health scare that was wonderfully relieved when five doctors agreed the original radiography […]
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Can We Get Back to Civil, Thoughtful Dialogue? As I watch the travails of the US President, Barack Obama, I notice that, predictably, he is being attacked by conservatives. What may be more surprising is that he is facing withering criticism from the left as well. Many liberals think
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The Bitch And The Chow (Or the trials and tribulations of a pet/house sitter) By Kelly Hayes-Raitt Next week, I was supposed to be dog/housesitting for Pixie, a chow-chow with separation anxiety so severe she once threw herself through a plate glass window. It did occur to me that watching this chow might be
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “The rich are different than you or me” to which his friend Ernest Hemingway retorted: “Yes, they have more money.” In bridge terms, we might say that the stars of the game are also different; they make plays that mere mortals
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The Spy In Love By John Hoopes 170 pages – $15 US Review by Kenneth J Clarke John Hoopes novel The Spy in Love is a tale of industrial and political espionage set on the shores of Lake Chapala as we entered this millennium. In July 2000, after ruling Mexico for 71 years, the
An Unchanged Village By K. Pontikes If you looked at a stack of photographs of Ajijic, Mexico from the last decade, you wouldn’t see too many changes in the pictures as time progressed. There would still be horses ridden by unfashionable, dusty caballeros, riding alongside the main road, occasionally crossing at a red light
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Nearly Midnight By Allen McGill Salina led the way along the pathways between the headstones of the deserted cemetery. The air was clear, brisk with October chill. The trees were bare; the full moon shone coldly off the granite monuments. “Here,” she said to her companion, pointing to a spot on the ground. She stood still,
My Top Ten Movie Choices By Marni Johnson The article in the September Ojo by David Harper entitled “My Top Ten Movies of All Time” listed three crime genre choices, two war stories, two westerns, one swashbuckler, one comedy, one drama, and one romantic comedy. That’s right—oneromance. Male choices, yes? Here’s a list from
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Electrifying, YetStultifying Thomas Edison In any roll-call of the most important people in all of American history, Thomas Alva Edison (the “Alva” has been traced to Hispanic ancestry) would have to be ranked near the top. Edison was of an era, however, that saw Samuel Morse invent the
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Adios & Farewell, Amigo Mio By Landon Hollander He was there every day, at the main bus stop, in his plastic chair, newspaper on lap, reading glasses perched at the end of his nose, or chatting with passerby and chums. Wearing one of his Amigos de La Cruz T shirts. Because of his almost
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