Age Is Just A State Of Mind By Kathy Koches   Most of the time I don’t think about my age. It is just something that is and it doesn’t bother me one way or the other. That old adage “You’re only as old as you feel” never meant much to me until recently. I […]

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   Websters Dictionary offers a wide variety of what “family” means. One being the mating of two same species and raising offspring. Mobs have ‘families’ as do cults and organizations. The Tepehua Community Center Organization considers itself a ‘family’ that houses many ‘families’.  Those families

A Guilty Love By K. Pontikes   In three weeks the town is going to hang Michael Stark for what he did. The sheriff said the crime was unprovoked. Now Don Hart, the town butcher, is dead. Shot in the back. But I knew Don Hart and believe me, he was guilty of something. I

If Our Pets Could Talk By Jackie Kellum   Cats are capable of making at least 30 sounds, including at least 19 variations on the simple meow. In general, kittens use meows to communicate with their moms, but grown cats employ them solely to communicate with humans. Cats hisses, growls, squeals, and make other sounds

Welcome to México! By Victoria Schmidt   A health trend in the USA is to count how many steps you take a day in order to keep you moving, and help you track your fitness. Some people have electronic equipment that sync to their cell phones, and counts every step of the day. Others use

Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson   Sometimes, despite holding a wealth of high cards, you will reach a slam and when dummy comes down you will see no clear way to making your contract. Such was the case when this hand was played in a match-point duplicate event. South began proceedings with 2

I Miss Tom Faloon By Margaret Ann Porter   We need to repaint the inside of our house but I can’t bring myself to do it. Tom Faloon was here when we last painted and we’d be covering up memories. In 2009, Tom was the design-builder who renovated part of our house with his longtime

One More Thought On America in The Time of Trump By Karen Shiebler   I can’t stand Donald Trump. He is a liar. I hate liars. He is willing to turn us all against each other to achieve his own power and his own gains. I hate that kind of selfishness. But I love a

The Cuban Motorcycle Acrobat By Chad Olsen   While in Cuba, we stayed at the Casa Dianna B&B run by Tony and Dianna. Casa Dianna is a beautiful house in outer Havana. It was the home of a Cuban minister, before the revolution, of course. After the revolution, the houses of the Batista regime were

LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com August 2018   OPEN CIRCLE Sunday morning finds many Lakeside residents at the Lake Chapala Society and Open Circle, a forum on a variety of stimulating topics. A social hour with coffee and snacks at 10 am is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion at 10:30.