“Time A La Mexicana” By Shep LenchekFrom the Ojo Archives “Hurry up, you´ll be late for school.” “Can´t you ever be on time.” “Get-dressed, the party starts at eight.” Those of us from northern climes know too well the tyranny of time. It has been drilled into us from early childhood and has governed […]
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Domain Of The Scorpion By Robert Bruce DrynanReviewed by Kay Davis Bob Drynan’s pulse-pounding thriller is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War at its peak, in the midst of narcotics trafficking and Marxist guerrilla activities in Columbia and Venezuela. Ex-marine Ryan Haggarty, working in Venezuela as a petroleum geologist, meets Anne
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy It’s All Relative “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” Fat lot of good that does me now. A head full of quotes doled out to the unwashed
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A Surprising Tenderness By Sydney Gay There were two interesting men in my neighborhood: Will was addicted to alcohol, he sneered when spoken to, argued over small things, his children were unhappy and his wife look worried. The other neighbor, Sam, remains more deeply in my mind. A good-humored man with seven children, Sam’s
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez THE JFK ASSASSINATION—Revisited Many years ago, the History Channel produced a six-part series on the above-mentioned matter, but was blocked by the Federal Communications Commission from broadcasting the series, threatening to take away the Channel’s federal license if it violated this mandate. Only fairly recently was the ban finally
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The Wilde Midwest By Mark Sconce My pen has lost its dispositionTo mar the fleeting page with verse;For other, colder dreams I nurse,And sterner cares now seek admission;And mid the hum and hush of life,They haunt my soul with dreams of strife.A.S. Pushkin Trans. James Falen I wonder what the farm wives told their
Dust On My Heart By Neill JamesBook Review by Alice Hathaway(From the Ojo Archives) You might wonder who’d want to read a book about Mexico that was written more than fifty years ago. But if that book is Dust On my Heart by Ajijic’s own Neill James, you’d be surprised how many people want
Understanding Your Dreams By Sydney Metrick Sydneymetrick@Gmail.com Have you ever wondered what your “weird” dreams might mean? Dreams are generated from your unconscious mind which speaks in the language of symbols. Dreams, daydreams, myths, fairytales, art…all come from the unconscious. By getting familiar with symbolic language you can look behind the symbols to discover
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson In order to become a consistently good bridge player it is very useful if one is a pragmatist. By this I mean the game cannot be learned and played by rote, one must constantly be prepared to alter strategies as conditions change at the table. The diagrammed hand
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Artists Masks Of Mexico By Andrew Fox One of the popular artistic manifestations of Mexico is in its masks. Every region has its own and from within the carved images, one can see two distinctly separate faces looking down on us. The European face reflects the history of Spanish Mexico. The other face is
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