Articles 2015

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton   “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.”                                                     –Epictetus, Greek philosopher One sunny afternoon some years ago I picked up in a little mountain bookstore in western Colorado, Loving What Is, by Byron Katie, a woman who […]

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   Traveling through back streets of Tepehua five years ago could be a hazardous journey, a journey undertaken by a small group of women who were going to start a Community Center, full of enthusiasm they explored to see the need of the people. Obviously

Dear Portia Advice to the Lovelorn, the Drastically Distracted and the Deeply Disgruntled   Dear Portia, I know you avoid politics, but I simply can’t!  Is the Donald the terrifying redeemer of America, or is he the defiant destroyer of the system? Polly Ticks Dear Tics, Mr. Trump is simply the embodiment of the long

  LAKESIDE LIVING   Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   September 2015   YOU CAN SEE IT IN OCTOBER Last month the Lakeside Little Theatre hosted the children’s theatrical performance of “The Legend of Queen Xochitl-Mich-Cihualli.” Local artist Antonio Lopez Vega authored and narrated the legend of the naming of Ajijic. He was inspired

Sage Advice By Kathy L. Pricekatcandu@ymail.com   Black asphalt bisected the desert landscape. It lay there in a perfectly straight line, shimmering in the heat, and offered both a mix of dismay at the distance yet to be traveled and a beckoning into the mountains beyond. The late afternoon sun hung just above the ridge

The Greatest Lover Of Last Tuesday By Neil McKinnonBook Review by Ed Tasca   Neil McKinnon blessedly answers for this writer the mysterious mathematical enigma: whatever happened to male-female comedy duos. The answer seems to be that they’ve gone literary, and appear as the two principal characters of Neil’s new book, The Greatest Lover of

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt “It only leaks when it rains.”   Mexico in rainy season; the mountains are a lush green, flowers are blooming, bugs are flying, and the rain has been fairly constant this year. Everyone says “Es bueno para el lago.”  (It is good for the lake.) Having lived in Mexico

How A Chicken Gets Across The Road By Carol L. Bowman   My heart pounded. I struggled for the courage to cross like a local. Stepping from the curb, I focused on the opposite side and walked and prayed and kept walking, waiting to hear the crunch of metal meeting bone. The trick—never look to

Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Christopher R. V.   Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago’s column was “on vacation” over the summer, but there was no vacation for those volunteers who work at the “clinics” every other week to reimburse our families for their medical expenses. Illness doesn’t get a vacation, unfortunately, and

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir,  The association between El OJO del LAGO and NCA (Los Niños de Chapala y Ajjijc A.C.) is of long-standing, and immensely valued. Lakesiders are by nature a compassionate and generous group, needing simply to be aware of the need in order to extend a helping hand. NCA’s continuing