History and Vision for the Lake Chapala Society By Arthur Melby (Editor’s note: Arthur Melby, 92, is a longtime resident of Lakeside and was president of the Lake Chapala Society from 1989 to 1991. A native of Chicago, he served in military intelligence in Central and South America during World War II, owned a […]
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YOUR BLACK BRAIDS NEATLY DRAPED By Bill Frayer Your black braids neatly draped You sit attentive On the white plastic bucket In the sheet metal shade. You love your family, I can tell. You sit so still, back to, In the lee of the Blazing desert sun. I worry in that instant Through the
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JANICE IN WONDERLAND(Tales from Mexico) By Janice Kimball, M.F.A. I thought it didn’t matter what happened to my body after I was dead. For me, dead is dead. That was before I discovered my cemetery plot was in the wrong neighborhood. I bought the plot in the old Ajijic Panteon. Teo’s daughter arranged it.
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THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO By Annette Gordon-ReedBook Review by Alice Hathaway The sub-title of THE HEMINGS OF MONTICELLO is “An American Family.” The first known member of that family was a young African woman who was impregnated while being transported to slavery in America in the 1730’s, She named the daughter she bore Elizabeth
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Agave Blood, Poems by Bill Frayer Reviewed by James Tipton Popular Lakeside author Bill Frayer has just published another fine collection of poetry: Agave Blood. The first, and longest, section, “Mexico,” celebrates Bill’s deepening connection with Mexico and its people and his discovery of the “delicious now,” where he is learning “That my present
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DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE One day a father goes to work, and on his way home he suddenly stops for a doll for his daughter. He walks into a shop and asks the sales person, “How much for one of those Barbies in the display window? “The salesperson answers, “Which one do you mean sir?
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STROLLING THROUGH TIME By Mildred Boyd No one traveling between Chapala and Ajijic recently can have failed to be intrigued by it. Over the last few months, a long, blank stretch of drab concrete retaining wall has begun to come alive with color and movement as Javier Zaragoza performs yet another of his artistic
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The World of Wine By Ceci Rodriguez California Wine The wine industry in California is very young. In 1769, Spanish missionaries founded their first mission on what is now US soil at San Diego. They brought the Mission grape, which, while it does not produce fine wine, can survive in difficult climates and needs
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Kay Davis The MousetrapWritten by Agatha ChristieDirected by Roseann Wilshere Mollie and Giles Ralston have a new hotel, snowed in with five guests. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to warn the group that a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Mrs. Maureen Lyon
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