August 2017

Sacagawea (and her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau) By Robert James Taylor “Deaths Shrouded in Mystery”   Sacagawea, the most celebrated woman in American Native History, immortalized by 23 statues across the parks of the USA shares the same riddle as that of her son. They both have two grave sites. A controversial subject, about which […]

The Old Bachelor, the Old Maid and the Bull By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   I was 15 years old when one warm October evening, the bull killed the Old Bachelor. Life and death were everyday realities for those of us who grew up in the rural Midwest. Farm boys all knew where calves, and foals,

Dear Mr. Hemingway   I am sorry but we are going to pass on your book, The Old Man and the Sea. Although the book has some interesting writing, the writing lacks, how we say in the book business, “heads nor tails.” Basically the story does not meet our standard for modern creative fiction on

China Bulldog By Judy Dykstra-Brown   I dreamed last night that we were clearing out my mother’s house. The front doors of all the kitchen cabinets had been removed and I was puzzled about this. On the mantelpiece, I found China bulldog after China bulldog that was a replica of one my mother had told me

Ramblings From The Ranch Flight to Freedom     Flight to Freedom is a new campaign The Ranch has spearheaded. Thanks to a wonderful former Lakeside resident who worked at The Ranch ten years ago, a relationship has formed with a shelter in Washington State that has a terrific facility and lots of people wanting

LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   August 2017     MARILYN MONROE’S LAST NIGHT     Lakeside Little Theatre is pleased to announce a special summer fundraiser, M.M. xx, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the death of one of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, Marilyn Monroe. Her death, like her life,  continues

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt The Help(Re-Published by Request)   A few years ago, a friend loaned me a book written by Kathryn Stockett, entitled The Help. Later this story was made into a movie. The story is set in Mississippi in the 1960’s and, as the title suggests, it is about the “colored”

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   “One who is defeated is one who stopped dreaming”. A new graffiti on the walls of Tepehua, to be proud of, people stop to take photographs.   Beautifully written and grammatically correct. (I am not to sure about the translation, but it is close). This

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: Sorry, Charlie but you REALLY missed the mark on your “Another Victim of Socialism” piece in the June issue of the Ojo. I am a solid capitalist, conservative. The structures and organizations are EXACTLY what The Founding Fathers had in mind- KEEP COMMON NEED ORGANIZATIONS AT THE MOST

Not On My Watch By Kathy Koches   The worst feeling in the world, or so I was told, is to have to impart the bad news that a child has been injured, while under your care. When my son was about eight, my dad took him ice skating. My son had never been on