Articles 2013

The Lot In Paraiso Fiction by James Tipton   Anna María had lived alone a long time now. It had been nine years since her beloved Juan Ramón told her he was leaving her. They had been together forty years, but one day he announced he was going without her to a little pueblo far […]

This Year Alas, Your Wallet     Every time you travel down to Mexico you lose something, sun-struck calamities afternoon misplacements while you nap, worries about work happily lost along with intentions to diet, drink less and this year alas, your wallet, its leather and lost pesos adrift among the lavish bougainvilleas. How will you

PROFILING TEPEHUA By Moonyeen King moonie1935@yahoo.com     Executives of Human Rights Watch sent out a 92-page report on “The Second Assault,” outlining “the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers; also exposing pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico.” Kenneth Roth stated:

LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com June 2013 PAST EVENTS   CASA, the Culinary Arts Society of Ajijic, cancelled the May meeting (a first); instead, they want to tell you more about their organization. CASA was founded in 1986 and continues offering

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce Bards of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)   It was my third visit to the State of Bengal and its capital, Calcutta, this time for a brief vacation from my work in Peace Corps/Nepal. Indian friends made clear that Calcutta was India’s culture capital. Literature and poetry, classical music and

Of Ashes…   In such a small unearthly urn Where father’s ashes lay, Can it be that all he learned Will be interred today? Can everything that he discerned Be fitted well within This modest, gilded funeral urn Inscribed with seraphim? An urn so small, so light in weight, How can it hold a man

Father’s Day   This year the Open Circle, a weekly Sunday forum at LCS, invited audience members to submit portraits of their fathers for presentation on Father’s Day. About a dozen submissions were received. Excerpts from three of winners are published here.   MY FATHER By Zofia Barisas My father was born in 1903 in

THE GHOSTS AMONG US By Fred Mittag George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) “Sin and Redemption, Southern Style”     George Wallace was a good man, a Methodist, no less, and a man ahead of his time. But he made a pact with the Devil. The Devil delivered and then exacted his price, including the bombing deaths

Keratoconus By Doctor Gabriel Dery  (Retired) dery2020@hotmail.com   Many patients are unaware of having this vision problem. They consult their eye doctor because of increasing spectacle blur or progressive changes in their glasses prescription. And, as the years go by, the people lose vision, which, finally, will no longer be correctable with eyeglasses. When reaching

MEL GOLDBERG—Author and Literary Critic By Rob Mohr     When I interviewed Mel, I asked him how he would like to be remembered. His answer was typical of his pragmatic approach to life. “As a good friend and as a good father.” “Great,” I thought. “What am I supposed to do with that in