Anyone Can Train Their Dog By Art Hess Teaching the Basic Heel The final step of our basic off leash “lure and reward” training is to teach Shep to heel off leash with a simple hand signal. As you see in the first photo we have Shep on our left side (as I explained […]
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Geiger The Otter Cat If you ask someone to name a wild cat they will probably say a tiger or a lion. Much lesser known than other wild felines is the jagurundi; this small agile wildcat is native to Mexico, Central America and the northern and central countries of
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Special Announcement Our 17th Annual Writers’ Awards Luncheon shall be held on the 13th of September, 12 noon, at the Tango Restaurant in Ajijic. All those writers who contributed (sorry, Letters to the Editor are not included) to our pages from October 2010 through September 2011 are cordially invited to attend and encouraged to
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC Stolen Goods I was really looking forward to vacation and finally it was time. Got up at 3:30 am for an early flight and arrived in Portland ten hours later, tired but glad to be there. Within 15 minutes, the glad-bubble burst as we received a phone
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Letter to the Editor Congratulations and thank you for a great message (Editor’s Page-August) that should be required reading for at least 300,000,000 people living just north of El Rio Bravo. Art Hess Ajijic Dear Sir: I want to congratulate you on your analysis (Editor’s Page-August issue) of the main cause of “Uncle Sam’s”
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Reconsidering Marx Is it a good time to reconsider the philosophy of Karl Marx? Of course, this may seem counterintuitive. After all, wasn’t Karl Marx responsible for the failed Communist systems in the former USSR, Red China, North Korea, etc? Well yes, and no. He was a philosopher living
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Those who read last month’s ramblings may remember that herself and myself were well-placed going into the final round of our first duplicate back in Toronto this spring when disaster struck on the first board. We needed to recover smartly if we were going to finish first
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The United States Longest War By Mel Goldberg I had always heard that despite the United States’ embargo, Cuba’s health care system was a model for developing countries, with more well-trained physicians per capita than the United States. Cuban doctors were in demand because of their expertise in public health. So I was surprised
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Of Faith And Fables By Bob Haynes bzhaynes@gmail.com But what one remembers most are his personal qualities. His courage in his last days was inspiring; miraculously, he had penned his final column only a short time before he passed away. It was a privilege to have known and worked with him, and I will
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Tommy Clarkson Okay, I Give Up! Okay, Gringos of the North, I give. You, up there, are correct. We, who live here, must be completely and irrevocably wrong. We defer to you who are all knowing. Mexico is not safe. We acknowledge that your protracted, opinionated, pontifications of self-righteous
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