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THE TILLY & TOMMY  REPORT By Anonymous Contributor   In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned.  It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite clearly been abused. In an act of kindness, the police took the […]

SIMPLE TRUTHS   Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash with his best friend, Wylie Post, was probably the greatest political sage the US ever has  known. Enjoy the following: 1. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither

Notes from San Blas By William Haydon The Cracked Tiles Of San Blas   I have lived in Mexico for well over a year now. I have experienced Mexican weather through good seasons and bad. From virtual non-existence, my Spanish language skills have progressed to a sort of primitive fluency. I have eaten bad chorizo

HAROLD RUSSELL –The Best Years of His Life By Roderick MacDonald   In late 1944, as the Second World War was struggling to a close, the legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to make a movie that would tell the story of returning service veterans trying to adjust to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former

CUTTER ANT APOCALYPSE! By Ed Tasca   Our garden, a lovely house-front apron of flowering plants, shrubs and fruit trees, has been under siege by cutter ants, with no hope of a diplomatic settlement. They’ve been turning new and old-growth vegetation into confetti for weeks and carrying it through endless parades over my garden day

AS THE TACO TURNS (And takes the world with it) By Beth Berube   There is a store in Seattle called Chicos. Their clothes buyers have a brilliant philosophy.  If a woman wears an off the rack size eight at every other store, she can try on a frock at Chicos in a size two. Voila!

My Sex Life As A Fire Hydrant By Jeremy Monroe   One day I became a fire hydrant. Sounds odd I suppose, but really not so different from Gregory Samsa.l Surprising, yes, but less disgusting. And, we never learned about Gregor’s sex life as a bug. Probably we had preconceived ideas about that too. My

Maggie and the Hot Sheets Motel By Roberta Rich   Driving three thousand kilometres from Vancouver to Colima, Mexico with Maggie is an unalloyed pleasure- except for one thing. She is seven years old now, placid, sedate, the doggy equivalent of late middle age, kind of like us. She has her bed in the back

A LURE By David Bryen   Tired of scooping salamanders from under the surface of the lake, naming them and racing them against her younger brother’s hoard, she ran up to me with a new idea: “Daddy, can I take the Aqua Pod out and go fishin?  I wanna catch a fish.” Standing up from

PEPITO ASKS:DID YOU KNOW…?   That our website www.chapala.com is currently receiving more than six million hits per month! —That all the ads and articles in our magazine also appear on our website! —That our magazine is now all in color all the time, and the response to this innovation has been terrific! —That the