View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com The Amazing Life of Trails Driving along the southern shore of Lake Chapala you may glimpse at times a seemingly empty, vine-covered trail. Only ten meters off the highway, these trails run nearly continuously along the highway, unless there is a better jog or jaunt a […]
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My High School Nemesis: The Thin Line By Tom Eck I met her in my junior year of high school. Arrogant, snobbish and condescending. Patricia was her name –not Pat or Patty —Patricia. If I had been a girl, I would have disliked her even more. She looked a lot like actress Lee Remick,
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Robert Kleffel Mexico’s Middle Class Both as a professional economist and as a permanent resident of this wonderful country (for more than ten years), I have followed the development of a real middle class in Mexico. Twenty years ago few spoke of a real middle class in Mexico,
Is It Mañana Yet? By Anonymous Mexico is sometimes referred to as “the Land of Mañana.” Believing that it meant “tomorrow,” we then looked in the English to Spanish section. There it was, “tomorrow.” Reassured, we headed for south of the border. Never even wondered why we didn’t find the word when we first
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS: A Hero for all Time By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Bartolome de Las Casas was a simple Spanish priest, willing to risk all, including his very life, in order to blow the whistle on the first and one of the worst incidents of modern genocide, a wave of cruelty, greed and
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Where Am I Now? (Brightly colored doors and bafflingly numbered houses in Ajijic) By David Perry Lawrence I stood lost, cell phone in hand, in the middle of Hidalgo, just a few blocks west of the Ajijic plaza. I had left home scarcely a few minutes earlier, foolishly thinking I could find my friend’s
Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The bidding was short and sweet on this deal from a game played recently at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club in Riberas. But, as is often the case, there was more to the play than was obvious at first glance. North dealt and holding 19 high
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Turning Into Mother By Maggie Van Ostrand “Careful you don’t tear the wrapping paper,” I said to my daughter as she opened her birthday gift. “You can iron the wrinkles out and use it again.” It was at that moment I realized that the unthinkable had happened: I had turned into my mother. How
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Dear Portia —Advice to the Lovelorn, the Overfed and The Deeply Disgruntled Dear Portia: Hey, what is it with all these cold nights we’ve been experiencing here at Lakeside? In the three years I’ve been here, I’ve never seen it so cold. I moved down here from Santa Fe, New Mexico, because I’d gotten
