April 2018

Making Sense Out Of Life By Paul Allen   Unless severely handicapped from the get-go, our entrance into this world of living beings, most of us humans begin to assess living from an experiential perspective. This is coupled with direct programming from parents, teachers, peers, and, oh yes, the ever-present media.  The problem is that […]

Savage Capitalism And The Myth Of Democracy Written by Prof. Michael HoganReviewed by Ana Sofia Carbonell(The book may be purchased on amazon.com)     Written from the perspective of an American educator living and working in Mexico for almost two decades, Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy is relevant to students and educators, leaders

Help, I Want To Get Off! By John de Waal, MBA.   I imagine that few will disagree with the fact that our Earth is not getting larger, but that the world’s population is! There might be some who believe that arable lands (lands upon which people raise crops for their own consumption or to

Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Clean HouseBy Sarah RuhlDirected By Russell Mack   The Clean House is a quirky imaginative comedy about dust, life and love. It opens with “Matilde” who is a Brazilian housekeeper, telling us a long incomprehensible joke in Portuguese. All the best jokes (she tells us later) are impossible

Migration By Bill FrayerReviewed by Mel Goldberg   One of Ajijic’s most accomplished poets, Bill Frayer, has published a new book of poetry, Migration, which takes its place alongside his others, Sacred Lake and Agave Blood. This new book of poetry takes the reader on a journey similar to the one Frayer and his wife Pixie took when they “gave

Zooie–The Equine Escape Artist By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   One of the most unique individuals I have ever known went by the unlikely moniker of Casszuene, a combination of the names of her parents. We shortened it to Zooie. Good name for a horse. But, Zooie was not an ordinary horse. For one thing, she

Typhoid Mary By Robert James Taylor   Miss Mary Mallon (1869-1938), an Irish immigrant working as a cook in New York City, in private homes, became the first known asymptomatic carrier of the typhoid fever bacillus in the United States. She herself had recovered from the dreadful disease but had become an infectious carrier; during

The Straw Man By Mildred Boyd   Though everyone calls him the Straw Man, Andres Mendoza is neither a character from The Wizard of Oz nor a fallacious argument set up only to be knocked down. Andres is a gifted, ­if somewhat unconventional, artist. Instead of brushes and paints he produces his masterpieces with beeswax

Tongue-Tied By Kelly Hayes-Raitt   The one I want to wrap in my arms and bring home is Nebras. I didn’t even know her name when I returned to Iraq, shortly after the assault on Baghdad. I am armed with only a photo of a beggar touching her nose with her tongue. I had met her

“Town And Country” By Peter E. Gibbons   When Hitler’s Luftwaffe intensified the night time bombing raids on London, the British Government decided to evacuate the children to country areas. I lived in Maidenhead, a river-side town bisected by the A-4 major trunk route from London to Bristol. This two-lane highway passed through the heart