Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Vanesa V. R. This is six-month old Vanesa, a newcomer to Niños Incapacitados.She lives in La Canacinta with her parents, Carla and Abraham. Carla works part-time in a cactus nursery and Abraham is a busboy at Ajijic Tango. Even though both are so young, they are very […]
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Memories Of Michoacan By Cat Gonzalez Two young girls trudge down a dusty road in Michoacan, balancing pots of water on their heads. Both of them are so lovely, it makes your heart turn over, knowing that they, like their mothers and grandmothers before them, will marry at 14 or 15. Now they borrow
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An Actor’s Life In Little Theater By Ed Tasca To help you appreciate the art of the little theater, I want to share with you exactly what goes on behind the stage walls and into the corridors of the creative action itself. First, everything you see on the stage is fake, including the food,
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The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag “The Great Agnostic” Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) A young man approached a guest in a hotel lobby. He told him, “I am traveling for a tobacco house and have been in very poor luck. I haven’t made a decent living for my wife and little family.
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The Mid-Knight Rambler… By Ron Knight Oh boy, the way things have been going, I think we’ve all been in North America way too long. So I think we should all Move… On the count of three… One…Two…THREE! Hey! It’s good to be here! Stepping one step to the right, hey, it isn’t too bad
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The cover to the September “OJO” says it all. I never write back “to the editor” of any periodical, but today I am moved. Loren Swinehart’s thoughtful piece followed by Jim Tipton’s are the best rebuttal I’ve seen to the heartless, MINDLESS outcries against the children seeking refuge across
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The Hardest Question By Jim Rambo Forty three years ago you didn’t ask to know the sex of your soon-to-be-born child. No, back then the mystery of it all was enough. To paint the room pink or blue….and the matching carpet. Who cared? It was sufficient that my wife and I were happily expecting
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From Navia To Ajijic By Sra. Luján Martínez Suárez In memory of my mother, who “sleeps” far from her beautiful and beloved Mexico. No one is disputing that we live in the era of information and technological innovation, but I never would have guessed that, thanks to them, my life was going to do
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, I am really appalled that you give someone like Robert Nipper a forum to spill all of his rage and rants. I know that you like to present two points of view and it never hurts circulation to stir up a bit of controversy. So, I do not mind
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt A Visit to the Farmacia (Republished by Request) While standing in one of those endless lines at a pharmacy in Guadalajara, I entertained myself by watching people. This pharmacy is attached to a small laboratory that manufactures a special medication my husband must have. But it is also
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