Ojo Del Lago

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

NEITHER DUNCE NOR TYRANT By Prof. Amos C. Miller:   Among British monarchs none has been judged more unfairly than George III. The novelist William Thackerey pronounced him “a dullard brought up by narrow-minded people,” but added “the cleverest tutors could have done little to expand that small intellect.” Even George’s acknowledged domestic virtues became

THE SECRET OF GUACAMOLE By Margaret Van Every   It’s simple, the guaca from the middle of aguacate, Spanish for avocado, and mole, which to Aztecs conjures sauce. Choose avocados (Haas are best) just yielding to the pressure of the thumb. Then fetch fire: jalapenos or serranos, the most that you can bear, seeds and

DEATH AND BIRTH OF A MAN From Rob Mohr   Exploited/expendable/unwanted he sits in the open door head down arms on his knees spread to hold the weight/ mind sifting through old dreams angst and hopes/ as the day grows hot surrounding him with the only embrace he will/ ever know.  Blasting/raucous/pitch-less sounds spill out

JUST BITCHING By M.A. Porter   Not to embarrass you too much, but entering full-blown menopause during the hot season in Ajijic is a cruel fate. My New England grandmother would be horrified that I even mentioned my condition, and no less than in print, but there it is, Granny. Deal. Salt water is oozing