After 60 years of penning verse with no end in sight John Thomas Dodds, a Can/Am expat retired in Mexico, continues to write poetry exploring relationship, spirituality, creativity, and his romance with life. Since moving to Ajijic John has, under the pen name J.T. Dodds, published several fiction and non-fiction books. He is presently working

My name isn’t important because I’ll soon have a new one once my tracking chip is removed. Although I was born July 23, 2004, today, July 23, 2029, is truly my birthday. I spent the past two years incarcerated in what the authorities called the Home for Dissidents. It’s really a prison for those who

Each year El Ojo del Lago takes time to pay tribute to those who have contributed their writing skills to enrich our magazine. Anyone who has contributed an article printed between October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025 is eligible to attend our awards dinner. The award dinner will be held at Tango Restaurant at

A Small Reflection I was already retired from a nearly 40-year career as a minister when I learned the truth. It came in an email from the nephew who told me that his uncle, my minister when I was a kid, had been a gay man who was “outed” only after he had died in

JOHN KEELING “if I see a need and I think it can be met, I go ahead and do it.” That explains John Keeling’s contributions to Lakeside since moving here in 2002. A British-born Canadian, John holds degrees in engineering and business studies and taught at Seneca College in Ontario for 15 years before retiring

You may know me as that Shakespeare-trivia-obsessed person. In a piece I wrote for the Ojo, I noted that Edward de Vere and his lover, Anne Vavasour, were thrown into the Tower when Queen Elizabeth discovered that her lady-in-waiting was pregnant, and by whom. I’d read somewhere that she languished there longer than the three

Those of us who come to Lakeside are among the Olympians of Aging. On average, we are in our 70th decade of life. We are more educated, more informed, more affluent, more travelled, more active, and more independent than the average senior anywhere in the world. We are also mortal beings. In Lakeside, the systems