September 2013

The Long Ride By Bernie Suttle   Here comes one. Yeah, a guy by himself in a ’39 Ford coupe, a good bet when hitching rides. I’d been there five minutes. I hitchhiked there every school day both to get home and for the adventure. But I wanted less adventure after what was to be […]

Letter’s to the Editor     Dear Sir:   I want to compliment El Ojo del Lago and Margaret Van Every for the story, Water for All, in your last issue. I sincerely hope that Margaret’s piece raises awareness of a very important matter. Though “fictional,” her article carries a very real message of social

The Wonders Of Mexico By Maggie Van Ostrand   Ah, the wonders of Mexico, they never cease to amaze me. I wonder how the lawn gets watered. The sprinkler is always moved to another area, yet I never see the gardener. Once, I spied a sombrero floating along the top of the wall, but can

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com   Although the Author strays away from Profiling Tepehua Barrio, she is trying to show that the trap of poverty and all that comes with it, is the same in any corner of the world. Poverty is Tepehua. Tepehua is everywhere. India, Thailand, Kathmandu. Even to the wealthy neighbors of

My Father’s Walking Stick By Carol Bradley   In the back corner of the last closet to clear out before our move to Mexico stood the walking stick my father left to me. My father died more than 20 years ago, but finding his walking stick brought to mind vivid images of him; the jaunty

Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen José Uriel García Torres   This little tyke is 3-year old José Uriel García Torres, known at home as “Uriel.”  If Uriel’s face looks a bit tired and sad, it’s because since birth the little guy has had to fight off infection after infection–gastrointestinal, upper and lower respiratory

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Last Generation”   Adam and Eve were the “last generation” to live in a world without “things”…without shoes, for example, or Chinese food, or books (including Genesis), or children, or spoons, or baseball, or Penelope Cruz, or clocks, or cities, or towns, or villages, or even

Dark Of Night By Allen McGill   Lucrezia stalked between the headstones. Her figure cast long, dark shadows onto the granite monuments as she passed between them in the glare of the full moon. She was intense in her hurried search, intent on finding the most advantageous spot. “Here,” she announced, pointing at a spot

Mexico’s Fountains Of Youth By Ralph F. Graves   Moctezuma did it. So did Cortez.  Maximillian and his wife enjoyed it together. And in modern times, untold thousands of Mexicans and foreign visitors have followed suit each year, soaking in the mineral-rich hot springs that are scattered throughout the country. Indeed, nearly 100 “developed”, mineral

Mexican Voices; American Dreams By Marilyn P. DavisPublished by Henry Holt Book Review by Mary Fuller   What makes the dreams of Mexicans different from the dreams of northern European settlers of North America over the past five hundred years. Not much. Marilyn Davis’s book began as a fifteen-year study documenting the social structures, relationships,