Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Sounds of a Mexican Village I live in a Mexican neighborhood where our streets come alive with sounds beginning early each morning and continue until late into the night. The garbage trucks begin the first movement of a complicated opus. Their emptiness reverberates and echoes as the trucks […]
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “Dahlings, I was wonderful!” Some decades ago I was romantically involved with a beautiful but mercurial actress and director in Denver, Colorado. We often attended post-performance parties, where I would soon (and happily I might add) find myself alone. At one such gathering, I saw an
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren Cash On DeliveryBy Michael CooneyDirected by Bob Coull Cash On Delivery is a quintessential British farce by Michael Cooney, who is the son of farce-master Ray Cooney, author of Run For Your Wife and its sequel Caught In The Net seen here on Lakeside four years ago. So
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling The House Finch The house finch is a sparrow-sized bird which is a very common year-round resident at lakeside. The male has a red breast and cap, though is not as strikingly red as the vermilion flycatcher, which is the other small red-breasted bird commonly seen here. In fact
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CHILD of the month By Rich Peterse Mayra Lizeth Márquez López Hard to believe that this healthy-looking little sweetheart has just had heart surgery! This is 5-year-old Mayra Márquez López. Mayra lives in Chapala with her mother Yolanda who is a housewife, and her father Rafael who works in both construction and as a
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch I Love a Parade Loving parades, I am lucky to live in Mexico. But if you see large groups of people on the streets, with floats, dancers and music it could be for a wide variety of reasons, with Spanish words to indicate the differences. Desfiles, such as
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood The World We Now Share To better understand the world we now share one must take into account the transformed meaning of time and space. Our earth centric species is no longer at the center of the universe as explorers in space share experiences with us in
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STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D. Internal Medicine & Geriatric Specialist(Edited by Maria Montenegro) Gmo – Genetically Modified Organism Part 3 Thank you all for the emails and questions about GMO from the previous articles. Some people are quite knowledgeable about GMO and want to learn more, while many others have never
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UP-DATES FROM THE ANIMAL SHELTER By Thetis Reeves April 6, 2010, a Tuesday, dawned like any other day at our Cat Center: contented cats snoozing, playful ones teasing each other, fastidious ones grooming themselves in preparation for public appearances, and Barb, our cats’ majordomo, keeping a watchful eye and hoping for at least one
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THE TILLY & TOMMY REPORT By “Rebecca” Ijust read your column and am delighted to hear the Tilly and Tommy got good “forever” home. I currently have 4 dogs, one of which I rescued here in Mexico. But a few weeks ago I got a call from a friend asking for help with a
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