March 2017

Lake Chapala Writers Conference Company of  The Writers – Agents – Editors and Publishers By Herbert W. Piekow   The focus of the 12th Lake Chapala Writers Conference is on the writer and on various means to get published. Writers of all levels and genres are invited to learn and share and experience the camaraderie […]

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Addiction in Infants   Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is related to opioid withdrawal among infants whose mothers use opioids during pregnancy. “The rising rate of baby addicts to opioids has spread panic about opioid’s most vulnerable victim…the fetus. Newborns are ‘victims’ and mothers are ‘villains’.

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: I would like to take issue with the issue Gene Raymer took with the January Edition of the Ojo del Lago. When the founding Fathers (of the USA, north of the planned wall) wrote the documents on which their nation was founded, they certainly did not anticipate extremists

The Dueling Buses By Herbert W. Piekow   One of the things I like about living in Guadalajara is the inexpensive public transportation. For seven pesos I can go anywhere and not worry about competing with the city´s 2.2 million registered cars, other drivers or finding a non-existent parking space. According to Lonely Planet travel

Poetry as Art By John Thomas Dodds   I have all these unfinished paintings in notepads, on napkins, in files, on the computer. If only I could with a brush stroke, lay them visible to the ear. Where does a stroke of inspiration come from? Is it always there waiting in the wings, or is

The Serpent’s Tooth By Mel GoldbergRe-Published by Request     “How Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth It Is To Have A Thankless Child” —King Lear (Shakespeare) Act 1, scene 4, After my mother died, my father came to live with me in Arizona.  He needed special care because of his Parkinson’s Disease. He had the