Pixie Sticks and Special K By Kathy Koches Ah, “Pixie Sticks!”—those paper straws filled with flavored sugar, that we sucked up in our youth, much to the delight of many dentists I am sure. Just thinking about them I can taste the tiny sugar crystals as they dissolved on my tongue. My great granddaughter […]
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com March 2017 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 hour with coffee and snacks at 10:00 a.m. is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt He’s Bored! While packing to move to Mexico, I had visions of all the time I would have on my hands. I’d finally get to finish those scrapbooks started so many years ago. I envisioned myself stretched out on a chase lounge sipping exotic fruit drinks, soaking up
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Conchita at Lakeside Every day she pushes two hand-trucks loaded with tapetes and blankets and bolsas, one at a time down the cobblestone street to a grove of trees by the lake. She unties the huge plastic bundles and strings those ropes as clotheslines from tree to tree in the grove, using only
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Cathy Chalvignac — The Preservation of Cultures “What sets the world in motion is the interplay of differences… by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, we weaken life in favor of death.” Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Cathy Chalvignac, who has practiced her creative magic in Ajijic for the past twenty
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Some Ruminations On Proust By Jim Tuck Magnicide is defined as the killing of a prominent person, usually, though not always, by an obscure someone anxious to have his or her brief fling with fame. In literature, we have the spectacle of a magnicide that kills not persons but reputations. Tolstoy claimed Shakespeare was
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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
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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’.
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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
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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
