Ojo Del Lago

My Top Ten Movies Of All Time By David Harper   My criterion for judging great movies is can you watch them three or four times and still be enthralled by them? Some great movies can be a “one time only” experience and a second or third viewing may be boring.  Here is my list: […]

THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood Island Reflections Islands have defined each stage of a journey I began on Lulu Island on Canada’s west coast. Richmond, now a city of 200,000, was a different, dyke protected, rural world then. By bike I delivered newspapers and telephone books or rode a mile to the post

Concepts Of Intelligence Written By Thomas J. HallyReviewed By Bill Frayer   Have you ever wondered why some people are very intelligent and why others are, well, not so much?  What do we mean by intelligence?  What’s the difference between creative genius and psychosis?  Does our gender, our birth order, or even our physical attractiveness

World’s Worst Sentence By Mike Myers   (Ed. Note: At the last Lake Chapala Annual Writers’ Conference, what follows won the “Worst Sentence Award.” It is also incredibly long. We hope that this does not inspire any of our other literary contributors, though it may tickle our readers.) Through the sleep-sequestered slits of my heavier-than-Iead

Farewell, Kay—Welcome, Shelley! Kay Davis, the Editor of our Lakeside Living column for the past three years, has decided to move on to other challenges. Her cheerful attitude and professional manner has long made her a favorite with both the public as well as her colleagues here at the Ojo. Moreover, Kay has always been

No Idle Retirement Here! By Tommy Clarkson   Recently, for 107 days, with my once, Manzanillo, sun-burned, nose placed against the proverbial grindstone and formerly, retina-detached eye struggling for focus on the ball, I was back in the yoke of work. And though this time constituted grueling seven day work weeks of 12+ hour days,

ROY NOLAN—Have Movie Camera, Will Travel By Harriet Hart   Five minutes in the company of cinematographer Roy Nolan and you know you’re with an enthusiast. His blue eyes twinkle; his smile lights up the room like floodlights on a movie set. Roy, a retired documentary film maker, moved to Lakeside with Margarita in January,

From Paris To Ajijic By Patsi Krakoff   When I was a young model in Paris, my gal pals and I used to lunch on red wine and imagine our lives as old women. Now that this age thing seems to have happened, in spite of all the risks we took (too much wine, too

Fur On The Furniture By Thetis Reeves   How do you protect your furniture from dusty-pawed dogs and hair-shedding cats that simply refuse to stay in their place on the floor? Do you spread towels over the seat cushions? Or sheets over the entire chair or sofa? Or drape colorful Mexican spreads from the markets,

Tuba By Terry Sovil Manzanillo & Colima’s Culture of the Coconut Tuba: a large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch? Correct, but the tuba I have in mind is a coastal drink. This drink is made from coconut palm sap and is sweet and pleasant but can be fermented to a type of wine.