Sustainability By Patricia Hemingway Rosa, my Mexican neighbor, sells plants on the sidewalk outside her home. Right away I notice the schefflera, the umbrella plant, in a small, cracked plastic pot. With pride Rosa tells me she found it as a tiny seedling—she illustrates with her fingers barely an inch apart—and that she has […]
Forever Young Ajijic, high above the lake,a day’s no more than what you make.A hotel on a cobble street,a lady there, I chanced to meet.Her villa perched upon a hill.An autumn day can fan a chill.An afternoon, a brief repast,a time to rest, respite at last.A cup of tea, a room to hire,discourse beside
The Hero Of Molino Del Rey By Herbert W. Piekow By September 8, 1847 the invading American Army had fought their way from Veracruz to the outskirts of Mexico City. Two miles from the gates of the Mexican capitol rose Chapultepec Castle and separating the castle from the countryside a dense forest at whose
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.com Phone: 33-2506-7525 February 2020 Lake Chapala Writers Conference Announcement from the Organizing Committee: “It is with a very heavy heart that I announce the cancellation of the 2020 Lake Chapala Writers Conference…your organizing committee needs healing time, both physical and emotional for either themselves or family…We will be
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Guns, Grit and Glory By Michael HoganBook Review by Mark Sconce If you are a history buff or an antique gun enthusiast, or simply a lover of good stories, you have cause to be happy today because Michael Hogan has written a new book: Guns, Grit, and Glory: How the US and Mexico Came
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Collateral Damage By Robert Bruce Drynan Sixty years ago I stood in the ranks and saluted as the Stars and Stripes rose to greet the day, and again as the sun departed and the melancholy notes of taps echoed into the night. I have walked through military cemeteries and read aloud names on the
A Day In Hollywood By Tom Nussbaum Although not remembered my many, Broadway musical A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine won several Tony Awards in 1980. A few years later, a touring production came to Seattle. The 5th Avenue Theater and a local radio station, to promote the run, held a Win
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Meet Your Local Artists at the ASA Studio Art Walk A Brief History of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) In the early 1980s, a group of artists (many of whom were graduates of Neill James’ children’s art program that was started in the 1950s), along with patrons, would meet at the Bernard
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Inventory And did you survive the nocturnal darkthe bleak encounters with old mistakes and lossesand shattered dreams in the drawn-out night?Or did you step out before the night ended and watch the twinklingblue paleness of Venus rise in the west? Did you forsake another hour in bed and head off with your dogto keep
Mexican Grace Mexican Grace is a new regular feature column inspired by the September 15th 2019 Open Circle. El Ojo is looking for anecdotes that relate the many encounters, whether initiated by expats or locals, that exemplify the special manifestations of mutual giving and receiving that define the Mexican Grace that brought us to this
