Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Duplicate bridge fans are well aware of the importance of overtricks but sometimes you need to be in the correct contract before those additional tricks can materialize. In this month’s hand, South opened 1 spade with 17 high card points. North responded 1 no trump which in […]
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The Dogs By Teri Saya Different sizes, different breeds, you see them trotting in packs or sometimes alone, but they all have that same desperate look about them. The street dogs are wary, dirty, and smart. We had lost our dog to cancer three years ago and once we settled in Mexico, we started
Ain’t Life Grand! By Jack Fink SOME STUDIES now indicate that there are substances in tea that may help prevent cancer. IN SOME COUNTRIES, cats were officially considered part of the personnel of museums, prisons, libraries and post offices. The New Zealand Postal Service only recently crossed cats off its list of personnel. “PSYCHOANALYSIS
Dancing With Ted By Bonnie L. Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com The blizzard created mountainous snow drifts and partially covered Sarah’s farm house. It was Sarah and Ted’s retirement gift to each other, their escape from New York City. After many years of renovation it was completed a week before their fiftieth anniversary, the week Ted had
The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) MOCTEZUMA—The Emperor Barry Foster Hi Herbert, I found this article as well as your May 2014 article on La Ola to be very interesting. It is nice to see that these young girls have a safe place to stay with people
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Grumpy, Grouchy, and Griping By Carol A. Curtis Oh, my god! Another sunny day in Mexico! The almost constant, nice weather puts me in a continual foul mood, and the day has hardly begun. I mean it’s irritating to have the sun foisting its rays down on us so often. What I wouldn’t give
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TARAHUMARAS OF COPPER CANYON: An Endangered Species By Karuna Tarahumara women give birth holding on to a low branch delivering the baby into a nest of grass. A boy’s umbilical cord is buried in the fields to secure a future good farmer; a girl’s, next to the hearth. New mothers go back to work
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BRINGING HOPE TO THOSE WHO HAVE NONE —What Hope House is all about! By Kina Dutro On what I thought was to be a typical Thursday morning, I journeyed to Hope House in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, parked, walked to the entrance and stood helpless as my heart was slowly consumed by three little
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Thriller In Ajijic Rabid Chihuahua Productions presents “Thriller in Ajijic,” a mock-u-mentary about the Organizing and Staging of the International “Thrill The World” Flash-Dance event that happens at exactly the same time, every year, around the world. Using local actors and ordinary folk, the film makers have created a full-length movie covering the
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A Circle Of Hell By Gabrielle Blair There is a place that I have seen,Yes I have seen it, shamed I’ve been.A filthy place of waste and slime,With blue-black gashes in the grime.Lurid colors, sulfurous yellow,Moonscape dead, black-gold lies shallow. Behold the tar sands, not long found,Millennia formed, in surface ground.The mighty, winding river’s
