This is not intended as a gloom and doom article, but one that contains alert information to help you protect your good health. The fall and winter months are a salad bowl of contagious respiratory viruses. Then you have to include pneumonia. Even though it is a bacterium it is another contagious respiratory infection. This […]

Don Beaudreau Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please note that deadline for submission of notices about a local cultural, civic, or charitable event is the first day of the month, an entire month BEFORE the article can appear in El Ojo Del Lago. Appropriate notices should include the name of the event, its location,

Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl was an enduring, often even preeminent god of all the great pre-Columbian Mexican civilizations, including the Olmecs, Teotihuacán, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs. The amazing pyramid at Cholula (near Puebla), the most massive ever built in the Americas, honored Quetzalcoatl. A plumed snake, Quetzalcoatl was at various times the god of water, wind, air,

“They called me in for what I thought would be a brainstorming session about an additional musical for Lakeside Little Theatre’s 60th season,” muses Tim Johnson. “And I walked out the newly appointed director of The World Goes ‘Round. I was stupefied. How had this happened?” Just a year before, Tim had been a director

Back in the early 1990’s, while I was living in Los Angeles, I joined a Wild West Arts Club. It wasn’t what you think. It had nothing to do with painting or sculpture. This club pertained to the performing arts that were practiced at old-time Wild West shows. One Saturday a month, about 50 of

Too Much Tech A couple of decades ago, when my husband and I first acquired a house Lakeside, things were quite low-tech. For instance, there was no Wi-Fi available for our home. We had no car then and kept fit by walking two miles to Ajijic every couple of days to go to the “internet

I was waiting for the lluvias to remind me—do you first hear the rustle, the distant hiss of rain crossing the lake and making its way up the hills, or does it start with that special lovely smell, that unique earthy perfume? I have guessed that it might be both: the smell might come from

In his latest Louisiana-based crime novel, author James Lee Burke has one of his characters observe, “There are things that no human being should see or hear or know about.” However, choosing to ignore unpleasant realities does not eliminate them. For instance, throughout human history nearly all societies have devised ever more unique and gruesome

They used to say that George Foreman’s jab, his jab, was like a two-by-four suddenly shooting out of an open window and striking you in the jaw as you walked by on the sidewalk. The abrupt emergence of La Peña de Bernal has a similar effect, though admittedly less painful. Located about an hour’s bus

Aging, Isolation and Invisibility in Lakeside’s Expat Community Whether we hail from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France or some other far-off homeland, our decision to spend our golden years in Mexico was not made lightly. We often leave behind families, communities and support networks. Through volunteer work, arts organizations, outreach programs