Living is no Laughing Matter A book review by Herbert W. Piekow The complete title of Dr. Michael Hogan’s 27th book is, Living is no Laughing Matter: A Primer on Existential Optimism. Certainly in the best of times living takes courage, commitment, and a bit of whimsy to live a full life. No one
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Return Of The Orchid Salesman By Janice Kimball The man had once stood in the woman’s Chapala garden offensively shaking handfuls of wild orchid plants before her as if they were rattles. After moving her live-in gallery to West Ajijic twelve years later, she encountered him again. He was dodging between the cars pulling
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Ramblings From The Ranch During difficult times organizations throughout the world suffer greatly as they continue trying to raise operating money without the ability to create events or do personal outreach. As many Lakeside residents know The Ranch has held some spectacular gatherings in the past that were fun, different and raised a significant
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 January 2021 “What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters.” Alain de Botton Our local arts and theatre community continues to struggle under the state mandated Covid-19 protocols. Many are
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Why You Should Get A Cat In The New Year (The Tao of Cat) By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@aol.com I was a “dog person” before moving to Mexico and the thought of living with a cat of any age (my age or the cat’s), but particularly a feline just beginning its romp through life was
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com As the world struggles against water scarcity, the UN estimates in 2050 there will be 9.7 billion people. 52% will live in water-stressed regions MIT researchers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) predict, water scarcity being a natural and a human made phenomenon. WIKIPEDIA: “The
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Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired stories that manifest “Mexican Grace.” This is a regular feature column inspired 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
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Why Didn’t I Think Of That! By Steve Griffin The gods of the universe were having their every other million year conference to discuss how things were going in their respective universes. As usual, their conversations got around to the topic of causality and their appropriate roles as the greatest powers and more
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Our Sun God Needs You By Armondo Garcia-Davila Boom, boo-boo-boom. Boom, boo-boo-boom. Who could be drumming late at night out in the middle of nowhere? Hernando Francisco Cortez wondered. He closed his laptop, walked to the front door and looked out, but all he could see were the tall forest trees that surrounded the
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Ismael’s Galerias By Martin A. Bojan Every Sunday, here in Chapala, one can expect a festive holiday. It’s not always what’s expected, but rather, the unexpected that most often moves a person from one point to another. And so it was that Sunday afternoon. Crowds everywhere. People, dressed in their finest. And so a
