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LOCAL SYNAGOGUE By Alison Solomon   After two years of bringing in guest Rabbis to conduct High Holiday services, this year the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation will be running everything themselves. “As our community has grown, we have become a magnet for Jews who want to live in Mexico but don’t want to lose their […]

SUNLIGHT IN A DEMOCRACY By Fred Mittag   Oh, the inconvenience of sunlight in a democracy that boasts First Amendment freedoms of speech and press. The Freedom of Information Act would seem almost superfluous, but sadly, it’s still not enough. Even now, I hear people in the news trying to justify our policy of torture

LABOR DAY—A Historical Perspective By Jim Cook   On Monday, September 7, Americans in the US and abroad will celebrate Labor Day, a holiday with a deeply ironic history. These days, Labor Day typically involves barbecues or trips to the beach with little awareness of the long, bitter struggle to win dignity and a decent

My Lucky Good Luck Kit By Bill Franklin   You probably remember when you used to have stock. And a job. Those were the good times, the lucky times. You had it all. But not anymore. Now you’re flat out unlucky and plum out of luck. You’re one of the millions who happens to be

QUILT PATCHES By Jeannette Saylor   Often we find ourselves involved in discussions about what love entails.  It’s this or it’s that, you will hear them declare  …thoughts about love that don’t go away.  Whatever it means, we know love will touch  a harmonic chord that brightens our lives.  To take love apart from a

THE POTTER’S DOG By Robert Taylor     A few months past in early May At a potter’s roadside place, I stopped by his pots of clay My visit there I now re-trace. I found that day in Jocotepec A dog no less – to my suprise The very image of my dear pet With golden

Havoc In Motion By Jay White   There’s a highway bridge over the Dry Devil’s River on the outskirts of Sonora, Texas, where I and my cousin Butch used to hide out to smoke cigarettes. One day after school, we ducked under the bridge and came upon a vagabond Mexican so filthy we thought at

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir: What a wonderful web site! (www.chapala.com)  Thanks so much for cramming so much creativity and color and interest and pleasure into just one glorious website — I’ve enjoyed poring over all the twists and turns of what your wonderful community offers.  I had heard of Ajijic many years ago

‘TIS THE SEASON By Margie Harrell   “It’s raining and it’s wonderful” began the call from my amiga in Ajijic as I sat in triple digit heat in the Nevada desert. Immediately a flood of memories came rushing back to me of the many rainy seasons I had spent on the shores of beautiful Lake

Beware Of Boomers! By An Anonymous Contributor   Despite the widespread availability of Twinkies, life expectancy in the United States has been climbing and shows no sign of a decline. The 20th century saw the greatest gain in life expectancy in all of human history, an increase of 30 years. Americans today can expect to