Ojo Del Lago

Aisle Be There For You By Tom Nussbaum   If you think Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock had an adventure riding a bus in Speed, you haven’t experienced a local Lakeside bus ride. Every trip is an adventure. Maybe not as fast or dangerous as in the action film, but an adventure nonetheless. Most émigrés […]

Housekeeping in the Time of Corona By Cindy Paul   Back and forth I go, in my little rooms. Over there is the green suede ottoman, whose only reason for being is to hold my guitar upright, the one with an incipient hairline fracture that will one day be its doom. The hand-carved, chunky coffee

Mexican Grace This is a new 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

Living Between Two Worlds —An Interview with Kristina Trejo By Judy Dykstra-Brown Kristina Trejo   In her 39 years, Kristina Trejo has worked in jobs from a receptionist at a sauna shop, to pretzel maker, but her soul work is as a pianist and batik artist. Her father, Ernesto Trejo, was a renowned Mexican poet

Remember the Ride By Steve Parker   When you are a young boy, approaching 16 years of age, there are only two main concerns in life. One is related to hormones and the other is as strong and could be considered a lust…having a car of your own. As I approached that magic age, after

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   During the late 1960’s and early 1970, John B. Calhoun made experiments with rats to understand human behavior through overpopulation. He built a rodent city which was called “Mouse Utopia Experiment”. The rodents were given everything they needed as in water, food, nesting boxes

Tales Of A Covid-19 Traveler By Karl Homann Karl Homann at the “Friendship of Nations Arch” in Kyiv   I am writing this from my apartment near the Independence Square (Maidan) of Kiev (Kyiv) in Ukraine, notorious for its Revolution of Dignity 2014. I have been in Kiev for just over two weeks now, taking

1977 By Sydney Gay   Math scientists like Albert Einstein say there is a relationship between number combinations and events. In a book called The Ancient Science of Number’s, the combination of 1-9-7-7 is an angel number representing abrupt or extreme change in life accompanied by a shift in the understanding of money; 1977 was

The Blacksmith of Vulcan By Mel Goldberg   George Fierro watched a tumbleweed roll across dusty Main Street, wiped his forehead with a bandanna, and walked across. At nine o’clock in the morning he could taste the rising heat. He questioned why he ever came to the town of Vulcan in the Arizona desert a