FROM OUR WEBOARD(Entries from various people)One word to describe Mexico! Adaptable / Fulfilling / Spicy / Bi-polar / Alive / Rising / Mixed-bag / Surrealistic / Home / Irresistible / Unpredictable / Challenging / Enigma / Beautiful / Dicey / Damaged / Raw / Friendly / Longevity / Slow / Finding Itself / Emerging […]
Bye-Bye Buddy By Sunny Glessner My eight-year-old computer was dying, and it was worse than losing my beloved dog. After all, I spent more time with my computer than anyone else, and he knew all my intimate secrets. I tried purging his system. I tried defleaing, er.. defragging. I would have tried byte-to-bite resuscitation
How Mariachi Got Its Name By Bill Dean Mariachi music is not to be confused with Gregorian chants. Pope Gregory would not have confused the two (even though he is credited with inventing the chants) because mariachi music was unheard of in the 7th century. But some 1000 years later in Mexico – 1852,
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PROFILE: WALTER S WHERELL: My GO TO MAN By Elsa R. Wassermanerwasserman@yahoo.com You may have seen him strolling down 16 de Septiembre after his volunteer stint at LCS, stopping every few steps to acknowledge a former student or someone he had just met. Possibly you spotted him at the Balneario in San Juan Cosala
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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
