UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Mis-Estimation of Risk Many of your friends and relatives north of the border undoubtedly worry about your safety in Mexico. This is understandable, of course. The American and Canadian media make it appear as though the entire country is rife with violence. We who live here do not […]
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson A great way for advancing bridge players to further their skills is by watching top players in the heat of battle. Since the advent of the Internet this has become easier than ever with websites such as Bridge Base Online regularly covering high-level matches showing the play
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Finding Meaning And Purpose For Our Lives A few months ago I wrote a column featuring one of my favorite songs… “What’s It All About, Alfie?” In that column I tried to explore some of the nuances of choices we have as we grow older and hopefully
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez HEMINGWAY—Half a Century Later Almost fifty years have passed since Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Yet both the man and his work continue to loom large over the literary landscape, much as did Kenya’s Mount Kilimanjaro atop the setting of one of his most famous short
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Havoc In Motion By Jay White Mama and the Garter Snake When I was a schoolboy in Sonora, Texas, we lived near an enormous elm tree. At sundown, sparrows, thousands of them, would conspire to set up the most garrulous din imaginable—quarreling over roosting rights, you see, and Mama never failed to remark about it. “My Lord,” she would
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THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST By Ronald A. Barnett (Ed. Note: Our thanks to Mex-Connect, which first ran a much longer version of this article.) An article by Mr. Morgan Bedford entitled “New Spain’s Fifty Magical Years (1492-1542) appeared in the July, 1999, issue of the El Ojo del Lago. A more accurate title would
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Have Walker, Will Travel By Mildred Boyd Tulum, standing as it does atop the highest point of the Caribbean coast, was easily visible from far out to sea. Consequently, it was one of the first Mayan cities sighted by the Spanish as they explored the mainland of the New World. Juan Diaz, the chaplain
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IN PRAISE OF PASOS MILAGROSOS By Elena Cooper Two years ago we began our program with six students and a lot of trepidation. Today we began our third year with a total of twenty students, three of whom started today with another one to join us next week. What a day it was! We had
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Getting old, infirm and being without adequate financial resources can be the final indignity of life. There aren’t many services here for the elderly in those circumstances. Casa de Ancianos is the only non-profit home for the elderly, and is a safe port in a storm for those of limited,
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: As a three year resident of Ajijic, I am writing to support the opinion of Randy Kent is his Letters to the Editor. While most of the articles are interesting, amusing, informative, and an enjoyment to read, I find that the political slant has become extreme, boring, and
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