Be Home When The Streetlights Come On By Marilyn Armstrong When I was growing up … and even when my son was growing up in the 1970s, kids went out to play. Alone. Unsupervised. Unstructured. Disorganized with not a single adult to keep an eye on us. We built “forts” and “clubhouses” out of […]
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The Forgotten Village: A Community Development Project By Bernadine Janzen Butterflies en Mexico (BeM) has been involved with a pueblo for almost 3 years just 4 kilometers outside of Chapala. Most people don’t know where that is. We call it the Forgotten Village. We have committed 5 additional years to the community. BeM implemented
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“A Flickering Flame In The Dark Night” By Rosamaria Casas Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the greatest writer of Mexico’s 17th century, has been described by a contemporary poet as “A flickering flame in the dark night of Colonial Times.” Her name was Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, but upon
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THE SPIRIT OF ’76 —Persecution, Slavery, War and Genocide in Revolutionary America By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Any cataclysm, like a war, brings out the very best in some, acts of courage, kindness, forgiveness and self sacrifice, while causing the very darkest of traits to surface in others. As we have all too often observed
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Life Askew By Julia Galosy The Writer’s Corner The most powerful relationship in fiction is between writer and reader. The writer can only progress to a certain point while presenting a fictional world, the imagination of the reader completes it. Over time fiction has become more sparse and readers’ imaginations have flourished. Enter Flash
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag Emergency at the Border? “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.” – Donald J. Trump Trump intends to ride the Mexican border all the way to the next election. He claims rapists and criminals
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Layla Visits the Shaman Don Cuauhtémoc By Jeanine Kitchelcasamayamx@gmail.com Sierra Occidental Madre Mountains Even Layla had a divination as a child; she was ten at most. She remembered her mother dragging her to a pueblo even poorer than Valle del Gatos where she grew up. It was a long journey as they traveled by
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Evolution If we took every advertisementthat we saw under advisement,envisioning ourselves in carsfilled with TVs and guitars,food choppers and Barbie dolls—everything we saw in malls—we might buy it all and after,fill every house to every rafter.Blenders, stereos and blouseswould pile up in our many houses.Consumerism would be the keyto how happy we would be.Lethargic children
If Our Pets Could Talk By Jackie Kellum(From the Ojo Archives) Your dog looks forward to a walk with you, but Summer months present health challenges and sometimes hazards. These are some hot weather pet safety tips for your companion. Never leave your pet in a car! Parking in the shade and even leaving
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The bidding was short and sweet on this deal from a game played recently at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club in Riberas. But, as is often the case, there was more to the play than was obvious at first glance. North dealt and holding 19 high
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