In Memoriam —Eric Roberts— Eric Roberts, longtime member of the Ajijic Writers’ Group, passed away on May 1st of this year. We were unable to reach the survivors for historic data, but we can say for sure that he was born in Hollywood, California in 1930, and he died of cancer 86 years […]
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Music In My Soul By Kathy Koches “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”—Plato Music has always been a part of my life. From my birth, and even before, my mother would sing to me. I remember her soft, gentle voice, soothing
Three-Sided Square By Margaret Van Every I was seated at The Three-Sided Square, my outdoor surrogate church, before the program got underway. Someone wearing the kind of perfume that rocks your space sat down a couple of rows behind me. —“O-h-h-h,” groaned my seat mate, rolling her eyes, “in Canada public gatherings like this
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit:http://thedarksideofthedream.com Reversing The Trend Over the past few years, migration from Mexico to the United States has been drastically reduced. Today, it sits at a net minus. The reasons are many, and include the still-struggling jobs market in the US, and the fact that despite its
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Ruminations By Robert Drynan If one reads Middle Eastern and European Medieval history, it is easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying present events with an overlay of the past. But shortly after the events of September 11, 2001 the President of the United States himself lamentably introduced the term Crusade to define
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Other Desert CitiesBy Jon Robin BaitzDirected by Russell Mack This play is set in 2004 during the Bush-era Iraq war, and was first produced on Broadway in 2011. The theme of family love in spite of personal and political divisions is even more appropriate today, as this dysfunctional
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Channeling Venice There’s little that words can do to embellish the iconic images of Venice’s canals which have enchanted visitors for centuries. Paintings of these waterways by English Romanticist J.M. Turner, French Impressionist Claude Monet, and American John Singer Sargent are widely published and well known. In the eighteenth and
A Baseball Player Named Pearl By James Tipton A little over one-hundred years ago a young baseball-player-turned-dentist borrowed $600 from his fiancée to self-publish his first novel. That was in 1903. A few years later that author, Pearl Gray—now writing under the name Zane Grey—was earning $100,000 a year with his best-seller Western
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Drifting Towards Authoritarianism? Many people in the United States and, indeed, throughout the world, have become alarmed at the persistent popularity of Donald Trump. Political pundits immediately dismissed him as a serious candidate as soon as he announced his intentions to run for president, and they have been
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A Leaky Ship Sinks An Empire By Greg Custer The next time you look seaward from your Cancun resort, scan the Caribbean horizon and imagine a small flotilla of 16th century Spanish ships heading south to north (that’s right to left for the directionally challenged). Suddenly the ships stop, reverse course and disappear to
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