Ojo Del Lago

Venice in a Wheelchair By Libby Colterjohn   VENICE! The very name usually conjures up romantic images of beautiful old buildings, gondolas on narrow canals and fine dining under starry skies, but not for me. About three weeks before I was to join a friend Jean, my sister Judy and her husband Robert on a

Have you Ever? By Chuck Poulsen   Have you ever had your email account so badly corrupted that it was shut down permanently? Are you out of therapy yet? Where are you in the anger management part? I’ll say just this about storing all your email documents in the email cloud, thinking they will always

Carmageddon By Michael McLaughlin Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone They paved paradise Put up a parking lot —Joni Mitchell The biggest threat to our little fishing village way of life is not the cartels, break-ins or plagues. It is the automobile. Now, the bad

Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Vying For The Needle   The race is on! Our salvation, inoculation with the COVID-19 vaccine, has finally come. After ten months of quarantine, one of the weirdest chapters in my life, there is hope for a future. Of course, it has become political. Damn politics, inserting itself in

Mirror To The Universe —MUSIC TRANSFORMS By Rob Mohr   “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” Leonard Bernstein When I was a child my uncle John Edmond MacQueen, a Davidson graduate, played Opera every evening. The tragedy of Puccini’s La Boehme haunted, and the simplicity of Verdi’s La Traviata lifted my spirit.

Pontius Pilate Walks Among Us By Lorin Swinehart   “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence always encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” —Elie Wiesel Jesus of Nazareth was railroaded. Some have commented that he must have been a black man because he couldn’t get a fair trial. Those

RIP – Richard Tingen By Dale Hoyt Palfrey   It is my sad task to apprise Ojo del Lago readers of the untimely death of Richard Oscar Tingen, the founder of this long-standing publication and a close personal friend of mine.  He passed away Sunday, January 3 at age 76, spending his final days in

Time Travel in Lantian By Neil McKinnon We were lost, the driver was mad, the temperature was forty-five degrees, and my ass hurt. I leaned forward to absorb the next pothole. Unanchored, my sodden ache of a body went up as the Toyota roof came down. Lightning flashed in excruciating symmetry with pain waves in

Malinche By David Ellison   Malinche (also known as Marina, Malintzin, Malinal…) remains one of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in Mexican history. According to Texan historian T. R. Fehrenbach, “If there is one villainess in Mexican history, she is [Malinche]. She was to become the ethnic traitress supreme.” Meanwhile, Colorado Professor Cordelia Candelaria