The Spanish System of Surnames By Jose Casas y Sanchez Since time immemorial in Spain, the Catholic church and the civil government (since the middle of the 19th century) have been using the same system for registering and ordering the surnames of individuals. Itsuse was extended to the New World, starting in the Colonial […]
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Change Of Life in Mexico By Bernie Suttle The stagnant traffic eased onto the Chapala Highway and we were swept into a whirlpool of cars, trucks busses, cycles, and even pushcarts. Just as our 11-year-old Sebring was coming up to speed and moving into the center southbound lane, it shuddered, moaned and died. Good
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What’s A Girl To Do? By Michael MacLaughlin Maria Guadalupe Rosario Garcia was a typical teenaged girl who lived in Dolores Hildago, Mexico. She enjoyed talking on the phone, wearing sexy clothes and eating pizza. “I’m late to school.” Maria remarked to her parents, “No breakfast. I’ve been gaining weight.” They too noticed her
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There’s Something About the Dalai Lama… By Julie D’Costa There’s something about the Dalai Lama that gets me thinking. There’s something about him that is different from most ordinary mortals. These days he is everywhere – in Vancouver, at a huge fundraiser for children of the world in Eastern Canada, and even on CNN
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AS I SEE IT By Henri Loridans Let’s Get Graphic, Gory and Ghoulish On Christmas Day 2009 a terrorist aboard an airplane landing in the USA attempted to set off explosives he had stuffed in his crotch. He succeeded in burning himself, but did no damage to the plane or to the other passengers.
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A Ticket to the Grand Show By Neil McKinnon When I was young my mother encouraged me to, “Eat up your dinner because millions of people are starving in Asia.” I never questioned the underlying premise and just accepted that stuffing the last morsel of stewed kidney down my throat helped alleviate suffering around
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren The Boy FriendBy Sandy WilsonDirected by Allen McGill This is a piece of fluff, to be enjoyed by cast and audience alike. Written in the bleak post-war fifties, The Boy Friend recalls and at the same time parodies a more carefree era when the girls were flirty and
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt A Rescue in Mexico “This horse is dying,” she said as she slowly walked the horse towards me. Its hide was stretched over the skeletonized frame with each bone protruding. Two abscesses marred his front legs weeping puss with bits of weed and grass stuck to the wounds.
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Planting for Future By Judy Baehr Lake Chapala Issues from the Ground Up For many years Wendee Hill and Marie Pruden, founders and directors of ACÁ, have worked on issues that threaten Lake Chapala and the people who live around it. At the Living Lakes Conference this March, Wendee spoke of the need to
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch Did You Know? As a Lakeside old timer, I often find myself sharing odd (as in varied) pieces of information with recent arrivals to the area. Sometimes ex-pats who have already been here for a few years, are also surprised. Let’s see how many of these facts are
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