The Wood Carver By Roberto Moulun He was a small man, but his hands were large and strong. Two men could not pry his fingers open from his wooden mallet. He won the bet, and that night drank at the pub forfree. Perhaps he never would have become a carver if he hadn’t lost […]
Imprints By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com Rancho de las Avestruces I first met Sandra Luz in her market stall in Ajijic’s Friday Artisans’ Market surrounded by a seemingly eclectic combination of brightly colored feathers, candles and planters made of something too perfectly shaped to be gourds, and vials of something that looked like
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com March 2014 PAST EVENTS Chuck Pattinian and his wife, Carol, hosted a luncheon last January 30 to celebrate the re-publication of Alejandro Grattan’s historical novel, The Dark Side of the Dream. The author fielded many questions about his career as a screenwriter/director in Los Angeles, as well
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Enjoyed the February Ojo, as always. One correction needs to be made to Moonyeen King’s column, “Profiling Tepehua.” Antonio Enciso heads a team to clean up the graffiti in CHAPALA. The Ajijic group has been working for four years. Antonio and I have “disappeared” the graffiti in San
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Change Our World Do you, or have you had a dog or cat or other animal that has contributed great pleasure and meaning to your life over many years? Does it pain you to see starving animals on the streets of Lakeside or animals tied out in the sun all day with no water,
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: This is just to let you and your readers know that Sofia Benitez has received the Silver Medal from Scholastic Magazine for her outstanding writing portfolio (Feb. 7, 2014). This award puts her in the top category (actually #2 in the world) among thousands of students from American
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There’s Something You Need To Know About Me By Sandy Olson “There’s something you need to know about me,” he said, glancing around and leaning across the table. “I’m a drug addict but I’ve been clean for three months. I have a sponsor and everything.” He sat back, satisfied with his openness and honesty,
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Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Luis Enrique L. O. For such a young boy, Luis Enrique has spent too much of his short life in the hospital. He is now 1½ years old and from this photo taken at our last general meeting, he looks in pretty good shape—and he is compared
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A Change In Plans By Margie Harrell The message came clear across e-mail. The apartment back in the U.S. was finally available. I chose carefully when I got on the waiting list last year, preparing for a period of uncertainty, sandwiched between 30 years of living to work and retirement. I knew not what
Sunrise By Kelly Hayes-Raitt “Art brings the subconscious into the sunlight,” Henri Laurens, a Surrealist sculptor active during the beginning half of the last century wrote. I spent yesterday at the Alte Nationalgalerie, (www.smb.museum) the fabulous Neue Nationalgalerie (www.smb.museum) and today at the Brücke-Museum, (www.bruecke-museum.de) learning about the Dresden “bridge” artists who painted in
