Mexican Airlines Soar By Greg Custer I fly on Mexican airlines all the time. Living at Lakeside and working full-time for a US publishing company, I have regular occasion to experience the Mexico business travelworld. In an aviation landscape that is maturing and hitting its stride, these are giddy times. And the news is […]
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Mexican Memories By Jose AmadorTranslation by Elizabeth Sellars (Ed. Note: Over the next few months, we shall be running excerpts from Jose Amador’s excellent collection of short stories entitled Mexican Memories. The book sells for 90 pesos and can be found at most book stores at Lakeside.) I remember Tarcisio perfectly. We were companions and friends
Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com How Do You Think You Feel?(Republished by Request) Is this you? You come down to visit Mexico and, after just a few days, you decide to buy a house. You may have seen the house once. You are unfamiliar with the neighborhood, unfamiliar with the construction methods here,
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com February 2018 ARTISTS…… Lorraine Farrow will host a show and reception at her gallery Sol Mexicano on Friday, February 9 for sculptor Robert Burns Wilson, painter Adriana Perez and photographer Karen Spencer. The gallery is at Colon #13. The reception will be held from 3 to
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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, In her “sponsored” article, “We Must Not Forget Our Past” (Ojo; Jan.; page 8), Phyllis Ewing repeats a falsehood almost word-for-word and attempts to build a case around it, using as props brave and honorable people like President Dwight Eisenhower, Anne Frank, the Founding Fathers, and none other
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You Must Close The Door And Move On By Roger Johnson He called her often, oh far and wide, Said he wanted her right by his side, Another woman was with him and kept The bed warm on the side where he slept. You must close the door and move on. She wanted to
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Editor’s Note In all my 23 years as the editor of this magazine, I have never seen it happen before. Over those same years, we often published articles and stories that have found sizable favor with our readers, as recorded by Letters to the Editor and the number of hits on our website, Chapala.com.
Writing And My Relationship With It By John Ward Writing was always difficult for me. In the first, second and third grades, there were no ball-points, biros or fountain pens where I grew up, in Africa. I was enrolled at a local convent where stick wielding nuns taught the alphabet and made us write
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The Sumit By Hildegard Hintz Late for the meeting, Matador ran down Calle De Las Olas. Damn, he thought, I was so sure I’d be on time this week. The chairman singled him out often and not because he thought that Matador deserved a commendation. When he turned the corner, he crashed into somebody. “Get
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: Firstly, I apologize, I don’t have access to a computer, but felt compelled to write to you about Mr. Bill Frayer’s article—“Uncommon Sense—When expert opinion is questionable,” As a Canadian, and a physician who lived in the Ajijic area and worked in family practice and emergency medicine for a
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