Front Row Center By Michael Warren It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) by Elizabeth Coleman Directed by Liz O’Neill After a long pause due to COVID-19, Ajijic Readers Theatre (ART) has produced this comedy by Australian writer Elizabeth Coleman. There are some farcical elements, mainly the ridiculous situation of the play
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How To Speak Mexican By Michael G. McLaughlin No, this is not an article on the passive tense of the Spanish verb ir or where to go to take Spanish language classes. I have lived here 16 years and have known many people move to Mexico, stay for three years, and head home, usually
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The Polio Fiasco By Janice Kimball This is an unedited version from Swoboda’s Hidden Women, a four-generational memoir now available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle. Go to my author’s page. The Polio epidemic of the 1950s was but a glimpse in the memories of those who lived during that period of time; but for me,
Questions I Dare Not Ask By Susan Q Miller Maybe it’s spending hours home alone during this pandemic that has freed my mind to wander through a history of unasked and unanswered questions that haunt me. I’ve always been an insatiably curious person and one of the greatest compliments I ever received was, “She
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Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt I have found myself feeling quite sad and old lately. How can that be when I live in “paradise?” Here in Mexico, I see a sadness in some of my friends. They are cold, hungry, and looking for work. The pandemic is still in the way of nearly
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Ice Skating At Maple Grove By Linda Steele “I would like to play the saxophone!” “Let’s go skating!” I suggested on a cold Sunday afternoon in January. “Where? I don’t feel like skating at the park, bumping into all the Sunday skaters,” my older brother fussed. “We don’t have to. We can skate up
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Karen Compassion, R.N. By Tom Nussbaum It began with a pair of pastel blue hospital scrubs. How my roommate acquired them, I do not recall. But there we were, Halloween 1982 looming on the horizon and a costume dilemma semi-solved. “I could go as a doctor,” Mark said. “And I could go as .
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My Brother’s Angel By Steve Griffin This is the story my nine-year-old brother told me, and one he sticks to adamantly more than half a century later. He had wandered away from the group of kids playing down by the creek, heading back, he thought, to the cabins provided for the cherry pickers by
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Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Tohubohu All around me I feel swarming tumult. I watch news on television and the internet, and most of it speaks to disorder in our universe. However, I feel it is my duty as a human being to be informed at this critical juncture of mankind. A raging
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And the Post Office Made Three By Margaret Van Every Over the Border January 15-16. Here we are in stunning Monterrey, 146 miles from the nearest US post office. No mistaking, we’re in a foreign country. We’re happily settled in the Regina Courts with a comfortable bed, shower with hot and cold water, and
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