GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Dating at Lakeside Home invasions and car thefts don’t generate as much conversation in our small Mexican village of Ajijic as the arrival of a single man or woman who is not accompanied by a full-time nurse. Dating, for those of us who live here, is rather like
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STANLEY UNGER – Carney Man A Profile by Kay Davis “Step right up, folks. That’s it, right up here.” A circus barker draws us to see the curious or challenges us to play the odds and win a prize. Remember The Music Man? A popular movie, it gave us songs like “76 Trombones” and
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YOU SUCK AND SO DOES YOUR WRITING! By Martin Levin In the annals of literature, the progress of friends and rivals has often been a matter of consuming interest to writers. The thoughts – often more the spewings – of those sufficiently in the grips of the green-eyed monster to go on record are
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HAVE AMERICANS FORGOTTEN WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS? By David A. Harper If I hear one more politician say he is doing what the American people want I think I may vomit. What hideous hypocrisy. They are elected to do what is right, not what some phony poll says the people in the street think is
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Lady With a Lance By Mildred Boyd In her photographs she looks like any pleasingly plump, gentle but none-too-bright Mayan matron wearing traditional native clothing and a winning smile. That appearance is a lie. This woman is no ignorant peasant. By rights she should be shown in full armor with a banner on her
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Reviving Your Metabolism Oops I did it again…just like the Britney Spears song. During a recent trip to Canada I totally got out of my exercise routine and spent nights raiding my daughter’s cupboards–even her freezer—socking back anything that contained sugar! And yes, I
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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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