Yesterday is Sevilla had I known how it would be – when the government mandated closure when – trains buses aircraft became containers for a deadly virus, my voice was but a whisper, my touch soft as we walked the empty streets the restaurants and museums shuttered the […]
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com From Lake Side to the Barrios there have been ‘ordinary people doing extraordinary things’! This author is carrying a few years, and through that time has been through two wars, and one Martial Law uprising…and a few pandemics in-between. Every time, ordinary people rose to
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A Fountain Overflowing By Carol Kaufman For five straight days, rain poured down in a small pueblo tucked high in the green tinted mountains of central Mexico. Rivers of water flowed down cobblestoned streets like currents racing toward the lake. Villagers stepped over, around and through puddles the size of little lakes, bundles of
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 “The world is violent and mercurial – it will have it’s way with you. We are saved only by love – love for each other and the love we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter;
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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
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The World Longest Love Affair By Dale Hoyt Palfrey It began nearly five hundred years ago. Shortly after arriving at Tenochtitlán in the fall of 1519, Hernán Cortés and the conquistadores were granted an audience with Moctezuma at his breakfast table. They found the Aztec ruler sipping an exotic drink called chocolatl (derived from
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Peace Of God By Nancy Greenheart Are you willing to give away all your fears Accumulated through these many years? Do you fully know you can make the decision? You do not have to hold on to the confusion. Ask the Whole Holy Spirit for wisdom how To give It all your troubles and
Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes UPDATE FROM THE COVID-19 FRONT After about six weeks in self-isolation in the U.S., hidden away from everyone and everything with my husband and our host, I can report that there is increased anxiety, no matter how nice a place you land in. We share our mornings with
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Nine Tenths of the Law By Herbert W. Piekow Nine Tenths of the Law is a novel of family secrets, survival, sisters and an heirloom menorah stolen during the Holocaust. This 223-page novel by Claudia Hagadus Long will not disappoint. Instead it will entertain from beginning until the final page. On page one Zara,
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It’s Viral By Monty McDannald Ray and wife, Shirley, are sitting in their kitchen having their morning coffee. RAY: Boy, our IRA took a big hit yesterday! SHIRLEY: I told you I don’t want to talk about that. It makes me very nervous. RAY: What do you want to discuss? SHIRLEY: I would say
