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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 November 2020   “The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”  e.e. cummings  Lakeside Living has been weathering the storm of life under COVID-19.  We are learning to know ourselves and how our lives have changed and will continue to evolve in what […]

A Battle For Survival By Libby Colterjohn     The sail up Sturgeon Lake was wonderful. With the wind behind us, we did a steady five to six knots and reached our destination in just over an hour, without ever starting the motor. It was just one long, glorious flight to freedom with only the

Giving Thanks In The Middle Of The Night A Memoir By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@ol.com Believing my father’s wisdom when he defined “home” as “the place they have to take you in, whether or not they like it” I plopped myself upon the mercies of my paterfamilias and his newly extended family. My mother had died

Truthiness In Advertising By Tom Nussbaum “Conrad Pitzer kicked a puppy! And he wants to represent you in Congress?” a campaign ad claims. A sad-eyed cocker spaniel stares from the television screen, begging the viewer to ask, “How horrible is that man?” But I don’t because I realize this is an “attack ad” and I

Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired by the September 15, 2019 Open Circle presentation of stories that manifest “Mexican Grace.”  El Ojo is looking for more anecdotes that relate the many encounters, initiated by expats or locals, that exemplify the special forms of mutual giving and receiving that define the Mexican Grace

Catrina Cumpleaños By M.L. Reed Just one more “hurrah” before…, I thought; before what, I didn’t know, only that something would shift to make this little hurrah not possible for my next Halloween birthday. I didn’t know it would be a pandemic, but COVID-19 makes the memory of last year’s celebration all the more precious.

Word Salad By Sally Asante World “History” part 2   The second part of Richard Lederer’s never-before-known facts of World History as explained by eighth grade to college level students: The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com     This column visits the Rabbit Hole again briefly to try to understand why all addictions are so hard to break; how the initial problem forcing one to find escape is lost in the struggle to survive not only the problem, but

When Did Water Become a Department? By Daria Hilton   Morrigan must have seen the phrase “water department” close to half of a million times in her ten years as a meter reader for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. She never thought much about it. Without provocation, the question bubbled up one night as