Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt A Night on My Street   Standing outside my house in the darkness of the early evening I await my ride. Yup, there I stand outside, in the dark, in Mexico all by myself. And I feel perfectly safe. When I did the same thing in my home in […]

Grape Expectations By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Wine    Love        Poetry   There is something about wine and romance that just go together. It seems that in every movie or novel, where romance is involved, the action begins with the couple looking at each other over a bottle of wine. The link between wine

Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum   As we start this New Year,  the following are a few basic reminders that are important when you have a family pet. Owning a pet is a lifetime commitment – if you can’t make the commitment, don’t get the pet. Your pet, especially if it is a dog,   should

Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Santiago Cervantes Tinoco   Another cherubic face whose parents brought him to Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago is Santiago Cervantes Tinoco. Santiago is just two years old and lives in the Cedros area of Ixtlahuacan with his parents and two siblings. His Mom, Ana, is a housewife

News Release Puerto Vallarta Writers’ GroupRe: Eighth annual writers’ conference Release author – Bill Jory – wpjory@rogers.comContact for more information – conference chairman Doug Danielson at dougdanielson@yahoo.com By Bill Jory   David Lyons, the long-time Puerto Vallarta resident who converted his career as a globe-trotting international lawyer into that of full-time novelist writing about a

Humor For Lexophiles   To all you Lexophiles …. (those who love playing on words) To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A. The professor discovered that her theory

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton The 7 Day Mental Diet   “The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.” These words, and some others that

Miss Stewart By Sandy Olsen   I don’t know why we chose to torment Miss Stewart. There was nothing unusual about her. She had ordinary features and figure and teacher-type clothes. Her face was ruddy and she wore black-rimmed glasses. Maybe we sensed her inexperience: that she was in her first semester of teaching eighth

Home Grown Arte By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com   The moment that I walk through the doorway of Colon #15 only a few blocks from San Cristóbal Zapotitlán’s central plaza, I realize that the Ostrich Ranch tour is about to be displaced as the high point of my trip. The house is unassuming, a

The Mango Orchard: The Extraordinary True Story of Family Lost and Found By Robin BayleyBook Review by James TiptonPublished by Random House UKISBN 978-1848092245Paper $14.95 USKindle $9.96 US   I suspect that more than a few local readers have fantasized about discovering a fascinating ancestor who lived in turbulent times and exotic places and then,