Bad, Bad Granny By Catherine A. MacKenzie I’ll never forget one Christmas when my maternal grandmother, Granny Whiting, stayed with us over the holidays. Mom and Granny attended the midnight church service while Dad stayed home with me and my younger siblings. They didn’t arrive home until after 1:00 a.m., so it was late by […]
Service with Love By Shelly Stokes Becca and Alan Pohl, founders of Alivio International, made the first of many visits to Chapala in 2010 to help with a summer program for local children. Like so many of us who eventually move to the area, the community and the local people found a place in
A Book Review By Dr. Lorin Swinehart of: A Summary and Analysis of: Humor in the Writings of Henry David Thoreau By Major Tomas Benton Thoreau is a Funny, Funny Man On occasion, a work of scholarship appears that is so meticulously researched and so carefully analyzed that it casts new light upon a
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Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired by the September 15, 2019 Open Circle presentation of stories that manifest “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
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Tying Up Loose Ends and Letting Go of Things By Barbara Hildt Let’s face it, when we’re old and have lived most of our days in this life, our time is limited. We can choose to lament our losses and things we didn’t accomplish or we can choose to appreciate all the people and experiences
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Word Salad By Sally Asante And You Thought Learning Spanish was Tough! For those of us who, in our later years, decided to leave our north-of-the-border homes for the sunny shores of Lake Chapala, learning Spanish was one of our top priorities. While some lucky few took to it like the proverbial duck to
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com As 2020 comes to a close, recognition of all unsung heroes from this incredible year of challenge should be sung loud and long. What would the small villages have done if not for the strong among them? Tepehua has its own unsung
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Can You Hear Me Now? By Tom Nussbaum “Damn, I left my hearing aids on my nightstand,” Greg said as he slipped the elastic bands of his light blue COVID-19 mask over his ears.” Walt exhaled with frustration as he donned his white mask. “Not again. Well, I’ve got mine.” He stopped. “Crap. I was
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From the Ojo Archives The Night Before Christmas On Mexico’s Coast It’s the night before Christmas, but I live at the beach. I’m afraid a white Christmas is out of my reach. No snow, no sleigh bells, no Santa’s reindeer, The sound of the surf is all that I hear. I miss mistletoe and
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Believe By Judy Dykstra Brown I don’t know of anyone who loves Christmas as much as my mother did. She could barely wait for Thanksgiving to be over to put up her tree. Those trees were covered with icicles, bubble lights, angel hair and boxes and boxes of ornaments saved and added to over
