Child Of The Month By Nicole Sergent, Clinic Director Maria de Lourdes (Loulou) H.P. Loulou is an 11- months old child from Chapala. She was born premature (8 months) with lungs and heart problems. The problems with her heart were resolved after a few months. She continues to have problems with her lungs and was …
A Long Way From Nowhere A Novel by John Thomas DoddsReviewed by Clare Gearhart John Thomas Dodd’s muse is in overdrive! Last month his book of poetry was positively reviewed in OJO. Now, for those who don’t groove on the distilled language of poetry, John has published his debut novel,” A Long Way from …
Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Riches Redefined Victor’s day starts before daybreak. Surrounded by dark, he slips out of the house to go to his first job of the day. It’s a simple job, one he inherited from his son: he walks dogs. Then he reports to his day job, which starts at …
The Darwins Are Out! Yes, it’s that magical time of year when the Darwin Awards honor the “least evolved” among us . Here Is The Glorious Winner: 1. When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California would-be robber James Elliot did something …
The Last Meal By Jim Rambo Eddie Pankowski was a member of Delaware’s Public Defender triumverate known as the “ski patrol”: Otlowski, Radulski, and Pankowski. He had the dubious distinction of being assigned to represent James Allen Red Dog. Red Dog was a thirty-nine year old Lakota Sioux Indian who had previously been convicted …
Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Let’s start this New Year with a positive action! Buy and put a collar with an ID tag on your dog. Have him wear it all the time. This last year reading most postings of lost dogs has been sad and quite honestly frustrating. The majority of the posts …
Learning to Pay Attention By Phyllis Rausch My new renter, Sam, turned up on the first day of October, my favorite month. It’s not just because I’m a Scorpio, but who could forget those incredibly beautiful Ohio autumns? Each year, surrounded by the blazing colors of the elms, maples, and chestnuts, I would recall …
Grand Canyon Rhapsody/Grand Canyon Requiem By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the unlovely human mind.” Aldo Leopold President Theodore Roosevelt said of Grand Canyon, “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at …
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: Teri Saya’s humorous essay (Oct. Ojo, p. 10) set me off. My wife and I were surprised (and enthralled) when we stumbled on one in Leon en route to Guanajuato in 1994 or 5. Even had a curtain you could draw to conceal the license plate. Don’t turn on …
Convergence By Pia Kraus Aitken Convergence is strange… a little disorienting. It wasn’t like I was a dedicated jogger. I was mostly running off excess energy or tension, depending on the day. Carmel Beach was a great place for it – a long stretch of clean sand in Carmel Bay. When I ran one …
