Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Certainty and Doubt Bertrand Russell once observed, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people are full of doubts.” When I first wrote about Donald Trump several months ago, I was fairly certain he would have disappeared […]
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Maki By John Ward She was abandoned with her brother on the side of the highway. The sweet, considerate person who abandoned them wrapped them in a towel as some sort of conscious-assuaging salute to pseudo-altruism. They were four weeks old. Luckily a kind soul found them on her way to work. She picked
Coffee Shop Ritual By Katina Pontikeskatcpon@yahoo.com The faint smell of jasmine tea vapor floated up to her nose, and she inhaled deeply, enjoying the warm mist. Suddenly she felt self-conscious and looked up. A man she had noticed sitting at the same table yesterday was staring at her intently. His gaze was soft, and
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Inhaling Sunbeams By Michael McLaughlinReviewed By Harriet Hart There may be readers out there who enjoy questions like: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” I am not one of them. To me, the answer is simple, there is no sound because one had doesn’t clap, if anything, it waves. Inhaling Sunbeams by
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: I just wanted to comment on the Donald Trump (Guest Editorial by Victoria Schmidt) article in the Ojo this month. The article was “bang on.” This man is scary and I pray for the future of the United States let alone the world should he be elected. Mr. Trump is no
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com As rain birds sing in Chapala…the first storms for rainy season arrived. It rained heavily in Tepehua, the new Maternity Clinic of Tepehua stood secure. From breaking ground in September 2015 until end of April 2016, the building slowly rose from the playground
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton THE MUSE AT EIGHTY My once young muse is now this ancient crone! No longer pampered by the masses She slips into my room at night alone. “I come to you she says,” in that old tone That made me vulnerable to her passes. (My once
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Rites of Passage at Jaltepec Centro Educativo By Terry and Carole Baker At Jaltepec, Graduation will take place in August 2016 and the hard working second year students are soon to complete the coveted Technical Degree in Hoteleria. They have been immersed in two years of intense studies and activities which can be seen
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com July 2016 OPEN CIRCLE Sunday morning finds many Lakeside residents at the Lake Chapala Society and Open Circle, a forum on a variety of stimulating topics. A social time with coffee and snacks at 10:00 a.m. is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion at
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The Man I Want To Be By Stanley Unger(at age 84) The man I want to be is the man I have become, a dreamer, reaching for the stars, as moonbeams illuminate Nordic nights. Gentle breezes caress my optimistic soul, magic sounds of a train rolling upon tracks to some faraway universe. A blast
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