Gringas & Guacamole By Gail Nott THE BIG “C” I have just survived my second bout with cancer. After going through the usual range of emotions—fear, anger, rage and shame—I finally realized there are some positive aspects to these experiences. Thirty is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling […]
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Compassion For All Creatures By Cameron Peters and Elyn McEvoy A popular statue found in many area gardens is that of St. Francis of Assisi. The patron saint of animals, he is remembered for his compassion toward all creatures. Certainly that kind of tender mercy is a much needed commodity at Lakeside. To the
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A Tale of Two Towns By Maggie Van Ostrand I’m the type who thinks the great outdoors is the distance between my front door and the car. So what am I doing in Taos, New Mexico, where it’s still sometimes snowing at the beginning of May? Simple. I came because my dogs like to
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SWEET MOTHER OF MEXICO— Leona Vicario By Herbert W. Piekow In the small Pueblo of Santa Cruz de la Soledad, where I live, the local grade school is named Leona Vicario. At least a dozen times per week I walk by the school with its opened windows and playground where I often hear the
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LA MALINCHE—Harlot or Heroine By Shep Lenchek La Malinche, Slave, Interpreter, secretary, mistress, mother of the first Mexican, her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called Doña Marloa by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs, labeling her a traitor a harlot for her role as
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com November 2013 COMING EVENTS ART SHOW AND RECEPTION Lakeshore: Oil on Board by Isabel DeBlanc On Friday, November 8, from 3:00 p.m., Sol Mexicano will host a reception and showing of the works of artists Robert Burns Wilson and Isabel DeBlanc. Refreshments will be
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The Legacy Of Folk Art By Harriet Hart Part of the mission of Feria Maestros del Arte is to keep folk art alive by promoting artists who pass their skills from generation to generation. Let me introduce you to several families who are part of this important legacy. The Linares Family: Alebrijes
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Esta Bien By Elsa R Wasserman He shouted out to me from across the grassy lawn at the LCS, while I was trying to walk, yanking and pulling my first ever dog. “That’s the best thing you have ever done, getting that dog!” I looked over in the direction of the shout, and there
ROBERTO MOULUN —In Memoriam— Roberto Moulun, M.D., award-winning author and longtime resident of Lake Chapala, died Monday, September 30, 2013, in Ajijic at the age of 89. He was a native of Guatemala and a retired psychiatrist from Hawaii. Moulun’s book The Iguana Speaks My Name is set in Guatemala during the 1960-1996 civil
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The Gift By Margaret Ann Porter To suffer writer’s block is to drink a double-shot of dread and chase it with self-loathing. The empty page mocks you but there is no clever retort, no kinship that might be restored between dexterous thought and sharpened pencil. As the concrete begins to set around the feet
