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FALLS ( Part III )By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D.   From the time we are born and first start to walk, we experience falls. Then, life parody comes again as we grow older and experience falls in a more serious way. You’ve heard the saying “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of […]

PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Center   Everyone who has dogs would like for them to be well trained and well behaved. I too would like that but to be very honest my brood seems to have acquired the German stubbornness by osmosis

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