March 2015

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “The best thing you can do with your lips….”   In Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler’s indefatigable Private Detective, Philip Marlowe, a lover of all things female, says, “She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” All over the earth people smile to […]

Can You Do This Crossword Puzzle? By Ed Tasca   The key to most crossword puzzles is that the answers to the short, clever clues would be subjects most people know. If this weren’t the case, how would tens of thousands of us every day, when left tranquilly to our own thoughts, escape from the

Why Men Are Seldom . . . Depressed   Men Are Just Happier People—What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put/Wedding plans take care of themselves/ Chocolate is just another snack/You can never be pregnant/You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park/Car mechanics tell you the truth/The world is

“Another Unretired Success” By Joan Meevoy   Have you discovered Stones for Ibarra, the lovely little novel by Harriet Doerr? Last summer as I was preparing to move to the Lake area, a friend gave me this bittersweet book, hoping that it would discourage me from moving to Mexico. I read it and cried, because

Dear Portia Advice to the Lovelorn, the Terminally Confused and the Maliciously Malcontented   Dear Portia, I recently busted my bum. Through a series of less than optimal choices it took quite a few days for me to obtain the medical help I needed. Ultimately the parts that had broken were removed, and a delightful

  LAKESIDE LIVING   Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   March 2015   COMING EVENTS NEW WORKS The Lake Chapala Painters Guild opens its show of “New Works” on Friday, March 6. The opening reception is at Galeria Sol Mexicano, Colon Centro #13, Ajijic, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. The group originally formed

LAKESIDE  LITTLE  THEATER 50th Jubilee Season! By Michael Warren   Lakeside boasts the oldest English-speaking theater in Mexico. Back in the 50’s, a group of variously talented people living in Chapala, finding nothing to do but drink and have cocktail parties (often three or four a day), decided they would put on a play. One

Blind Spot Fiction by Antonio Ramblés   Myra’s husband Paul had been dead nearly a year when a couple young enough to be her children moved into the long-vacant home next door. Throughout the long vacancy, a gardener had faithfully tended their yard, and while Myra often admired the flowers through its wrought-iron fence, she

Selma Movie Review by Tod Jonson   Few people know the history of Ava DuVernay, a black artist who heretofore worked with short subject material. For this film, DuVernay stepped into the ranks of a first-class director of full length motion pictures with a script which in order to get it on film, she had