Bats! By Mark Sconce A recent New Yorker magazine memo from the Dept. of Versifying caught my eye. It features an Army physician/poet on his way to New York to treat the sick and dying. En route, he recalls poet Walt Whitman on his way to Washington, D.C. to care for the sick and […]
Ramblings From The Ranch By Wanda White You’re Invited! What: Doggy Play Date When: 2:00, Date to be determined Where: My house Dear Archie, This is Gaby Jones. I understand you were a Ranch Dog and were recently adopted by the Smith Family. Congratulations! They are very nice people, and I hope you are
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson This month’s hand contains a good lesson for those who like to rush into the bidding where others may fear to tread. In an event played at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club, North opened her 19 pointer with 1 diamond after West passed as dealer. East
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Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes The Big Grab Boy was I ever naïve! I used to wonder why probate attorneys existed. In my mind, people wrote wills and any lawyer could execute them as they were written, respecting the desires of the deceased, neatly spelled out in black and white. Who needed a
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Mirror To The Universe – Spiritual Health By Rob Mohr “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valleys.” Theodore Roethke There is an unseen path, a non-material field in reality, that we all walk along when we open ourselves to the vast scope of what creation
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The Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse The Pandemic, Donald Trump And The Latest Apostasy By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.”—William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming In the Book of Revelation, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent famine, war,
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 July 2020 “Culture – the way we express ourselves and understand each other – can bind us together as one world.” —Yo-Yo Ma Our world is experiencing a transformation. Looking away from events, positive and otherwise, is difficult. Demonstrations by many local businesses demanding officials allow them
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Tears in the Mirror By Robert Drynan When I was a teenager, I found I had an undeveloped talent for graphite pencil and ink drawing. At that impressionable age I wanted to be a marine and so I drew pictures of soldiers in battle. But as much as I tried, I could not draw
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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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Idiocy and Pandemics By John Ward At the height of the “Dark and Stupid Ages,” His Idiotic Holiness, Pope Gregory IX, on June 13, 1233, instigated the first papal bull of his papacy: the Vox in Rama. This was a papal bull which decreed that the domestic cat, which had served us well through the
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