Ojo Del Lago

BAD HAIR DAY By Bill Franklin   Most people don’t know how to comb their hair. That’s because they don’t really know what they’re up against. What you are up against are 100,000 hair follicles on your head that sprawl, go their own way, and that don’t care about you. So the first thing to […]

Feria Artes Ajijic   On Saturday and Sunday February 13 and 14 the first major professional Art Show for the visual arts will take place in Ajijic at the new CENTRO LAGUNA mall, on the Libramiento and in front of Walmart. This important event in our community life is the first collaborative group show organized

You do not have to be a dog lover, only human By Jackie Kellum   There is an event that occurs periodically around Lakeside. Although most sights are quite pleasing to the eye, this new sight is distressing. We at times see several men either standing at the side of the Carretera in Ajijic on

AMSIF in San Juan Cosala By Sally Bahous   Facing the square in San Juan is an old house painted yellow and trimmed in blue; during the Revolution it was a hospital and before that it functioned as the home of the priests who tended the old church whose side wall forms the back wall

First Leg to the End of the World Buenos Aires to El CalafatePart 1 By Carol L. Bowman   While planning our recent odyssey to the tip of the South American Continent, I found Cape Horn referred to, in a romantic sense, as “the end of the world”. I pondered that there is no end

LCS News ReleaseJanuary 28, 2010   The Lake Chapala Society board has now been in office for over three weeks and is making great progress in taking LCS into the future. At our board meeting last week, we adopted the first phase of our new governance structure and appointed Terry Vidal as LCS’ first Executive

GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Advertising   I am fearful that U.S. television programming may have resulted in the death of a few million of my brain cells. This conclusion is based on the fact that I am now watching and listening to commercials, and I don’t understand them. We have all spent hours

MUSIC IS HIS MISTRESS By Nina Discombe   A classical violinist, a thirty-one-year old who makes sushi and savors Shostakovich, an entrepreneur with a Governor General’s award, Chris Wilshere would, if he won the lottery, become a news junkie, a ski bum, a philanthropist and a father. In early March, when the jacaranda blossoms are

The Continuing Adventures of Mildred and Suzette By Katie B. Goode If You’ve Got It…   “When did you know?” Suzette asked her friend, Mildred, wearing her most sympthetic look. Mildred’s eyes teared as she looked beyond the restaurant’s terrace to the green and red flag waving over the malecon. “I was at a party.

Geography Of A Woman   Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa: half discovered,  half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful. Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe: well-developed and open to trade, especially for someone of real value. Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain: very hot, relaxed, and convinced