IN MEMORIAMEKTOR CARRANZA1932-2010 (Submitted by Tod Jonson)   Ektor Carranza was a founding member of Culinary Art Society of Ajijic 24 years ago. He was a Life Member of CASA. Ektor, being totally bilingual, brought the Mexican and Anglo community together through food. Ektor was a generous, loving man and loved life — living twenty-five of those years here […]

DEADLY DE MAYO By Scott Richards   Hussong’s Cantina was a swaying sea of the vertically unconscious. A writhing, drunken mass of the insane, their eyeballs floating in tequila. It was true Margarita madness. After all, this was the birthplace of the notorious concoction back in 1941. The history and the sheer volume consumed there

Migration By Bill Frayer As you alight upon my wrist Looking hale, f   irm and fit Your Princeton patterned, paper wings Have brought you here to rest and sit   In these high pines in Mexico From Canada; you’ve made your flight Primordial beacon led the way I, pausing, breathless, drink in the sight,

A Beach Less Traveled By Rob Mohr   Going to the beach? Want to relax with good friends and enjoy the natural landscape and the open sea as you walk without interruption along a beautiful beach with no high rise hotels in sight? La Manzanilla, facing beautiful Tenacatita Bay, is my favorite. Once settled into

LETTER TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir: I am writing this short letter to simply bear witness to the fact that, in my experience, you have indeed commendably struggled to keep a fair and proportionate balance between the articles submitted for publication in the “Ojo” on the subject of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I can say

FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo”   Retirement and reinvention. If we want to be happy in this, the 4th quarter of our lives, we must reinvent ourselves. Retirement without reinvention produces the nicest but dullest lost boys and girls in wrinkly old bodies. I know. I see it sometimes here in Puerto Vallarta.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir: RE: Paul Jackson’s “Thunder on the Right,” Ojo Del Lago, June, 2010 (p. 17) I agree with Paul Jackson’s comment about not underestimating your political opponents.  I also agree that denigrating or degrading your political opponents is a very poor idea, often used by politicians who have no positive

BOOKS By Scott Richards   Books have patience. They never ask you “Where have you been?” “Who else have you been reading?” They humbly wait unconcerned that you’ve been away and now you’re back. They never question your literary motives, your loyalties, or your level of understanding. A book simply awaits your next desire to

REVISED MEXICAN HEALTH CARE LAWS—and how it affects you. By Jackie Kellum, RN   As a nurse I am always interested in political decisions that affect health care laws and how those resolutions affect the citizens of the country. There seems to be usually two approaches when health care issues are involved – one side

LETTER TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir,   Upon reading the recent column by Paul Jackson regarding Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, I decided to respond by email, since his address is prominently displayed under his name. My point to him was that he had a very comfortable distance from which to view