Why Ajijic, Mexico? By Dr. Todd Stong Climate Mile high site with clean, clear air/breezes from all directions each day. Temperatures in the 70s everyday of the year, low humidity. National Geographic rates this village as having the #2 best climate in the world. Rains only in summer and mostly only at night. Never […]
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson The declarer play left something to be desired in this hand that was played at a club duplicate game. North’s opening bid of 2 diamonds was the Flannery Convention showing 4 spades and 5 hearts with 11 to 15 high card points. It was originally conceived to
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Corneal Dystrophies By Dr. Gabriel DeryRetired eye doctor After I gave the lecture on Ocular Diseases “What you should know about your eyes” on January 10th 2016 (at Open Circle), I was asked all sorts of questions but I was also asked to write an article about Corneal Dystrophies. A few friends, with corneal
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Jack the Ripper—Part Three By Michael James Cook In Part One, we looked at the traits of a psychopath, now I want to examine what makes an everyday psychopath turn into a person that commits murders. Their childhood upbringing usually comes to mind, but Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Dennis Rader grew up in
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Personal Musings About the Mystery of Life By Karl Homann Life is Terminal Time marches on for whom the bell tolls… Metallica The other morning at 6:30, I heard the church bells ring to call the faithful to morning mass, followed by a slow and solemn ding-dong, ding-dong… to announce that someone in
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Greg Custer For more editorials, visit: http://thedarksideofthedream.com Say What! Weed Legalization in Mexico? It’s a brave new world in Mexico. It seems there’s no end to the ‘say what!’ news in this the Western Hemisphere’s most evolving democracy. If you peek beyond the rhetorical and resort walls, what’s happening
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CHOCOLATE and MEXICO—A Love Affair By Herbert W. Piekow Chocolate has a four thousand year history and its origins are shrouded in myth. Mayans, Tolascans and Aztecs used the bitter chocolate mixed with chili in their religious ceremonies. Cortez wrote that Moctezuma consumed three gallons of chocolate per day as an aphrodisiac; although I
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GET WHAT YOU NEED: Skills to Build Your Destiny Author: Anna Elena BerlinReviewed by Margaret Porter Philosophers have debated the distinction of “fate” and “destiny” ever since Socrates held discourse in the Agora. In her book Get What You Need: Skills to Build Your Destiny (Wisen-Up Publishing; 200 pages), Ajijic resident and author Anna
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Padua (in Italian “Padova“) is less than half an hour’s drive from Venice, and even the time spent on a farewell breakfast at the hotel on Lido and a ferry ride back to the mainland to retrieve the car still allows for a mid-morning arrival. In fact, the distance between
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JIM SPIVEY —Still in Pursuit of Answers to Unasked/Unanswered Questions By Margaret Van Every A carrot and stick motivated Jim Spivey to fulfill his potential against seemingly impossible odds. The stick was having been born into grinding poverty; the carrot an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Add to these the synchronicity that put him in
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