Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Managing From the Heart Before I begin this column, I’m proud to announce the release of my first book, Joyful Musings. It is a memoir of sorts about my growing up and learning about life, both north and south of the border. It is available […]
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Why Do People Believe Weird Things? In my former life, I was a professor at a community college. I have had a long-standing interest in rationalism and critical thinking. I was active in the “critical thinking movement” in education. This was an effort to transform education from the
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Everyone knows that to make a contract of 3 No Trump you need to take 9 tricks. Nobody ever said they have to be the first 9! Another truism in bridge is that more mistakes are made at trick one than at any other point in the
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Help Wanted! Years ago when all I could afford were old jalopies, the family joke was I needed to marry an auto mechanic. Nowadays my ideal mate would come with a degree in engineering, carpentry and plumbing as something always seems to be going wrong around
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan DominguezIT’S A FAT, FAT, FAT, FAT WORLD In 1963, producer-director Stanley Kramer made a movie called It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which was a bad, bad, bad movie, a pastiche of soggy sight-gags which featured several AARP personalities, including Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Andy
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com September 2010 The culinary arts society of Ajijic, known as CASA, featured poultry dishes and cheesecakes at their August meeting. At each monthly event, members present in two different categories; then each dish is judged based on taste and presentation. Members then
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com October 2010 PAST EVENTS: Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci wrote fiction? Ten fable ideas sketched out in da Vinci’s notebooks have been composed by Lakeside author Ed Tasca into stories of interest to all age groups. In the traditional fable format, they deal with
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APPOMATTOX– The Last Act of the Age of Chivalry By David Harper Most Americans are aware that the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 effectively brought to an end the Civil War. However over the years some facts are forgotten and things may be remembered wrongly.
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Angelica Aguilar Hernandez Submitted by Ruth Burns Angelica is one of the success stories for Los Niños de Chapala y Ajijic A.C. She has graduated from Tech College and is presently attending Business College. Doug and Nancy Friend moved to the Lakeside community a little more than three years ago from Montreal, Canada. They
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CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES By Scott Richards With the sound of distant thunder the heavy iron door’s lock sang home, solid, indestructible, permanent. The echoing clang resonated for what seemed like hours deep within his psyche, as his eyes slowly grew accustomed to the cave-like confines of the jail. This was the pit, the end. Men
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