August 2018

I Miss Tom Faloon By Margaret Ann Porter   We need to repaint the inside of our house but I can’t bring myself to do it. Tom Faloon was here when we last painted and we’d be covering up memories. In 2009, Tom was the design-builder who renovated part of our house with his longtime […]

One More Thought On America in The Time of Trump By Karen Shiebler   I can’t stand Donald Trump. He is a liar. I hate liars. He is willing to turn us all against each other to achieve his own power and his own gains. I hate that kind of selfishness. But I love a

The Cuban Motorcycle Acrobat By Chad Olsen   While in Cuba, we stayed at the Casa Dianna B&B run by Tony and Dianna. Casa Dianna is a beautiful house in outer Havana. It was the home of a Cuban minister, before the revolution, of course. After the revolution, the houses of the Batista regime were

LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com August 2018   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 am is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion at 10:30.

Remembering The Peace Corps By Barbara Hildt   Fifty years ago in July 1968, as 22-year-old newlyweds, David Hildt and I began thirteen weeks of training to serve as Peace Corps volunteers, PCVs, with the agricultural extension service in the state of Mato Grosso (Thick Bush), Brazil. We spent the next two years living very

It’s Not About The $11.52 By Sandy Olson   We met for breakfast at Maquina 245 to start the interview. Mel Goldberg said,“I’ve never been interviewed before so I don’t know how this goes.” I promised to be gentle.  I forgot for the moment to be intimidated about Mel’s years of teaching English and creative writing. 

Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Deborah Kruger (Fabric Artist), Turbulence – August, 2018   “The creative process is one of surrender, not control.” Julia Cameron “I don’t find art—art finds me.” Xill Fessenden, Ajijic The Bauhaus, a world changing German art and design school shut down by Hitler due to its progressive intellectual and theoretical

The Grief Of La Llorona   Easy for a mother to grasp La Llorona, despite each mean version in the myth about her motives for ‘killing’ her children. Every mother gives her children up. The child she would give her life for can never be retrieved from the river of time. Every mother becomes a

Why Can’t Congress Be More Like A Dog? By Maggie Van Ostrand   Pretty nearly everybody, including cat lovers, know what dogs are like. They greet each other by circling, touching noses, and generally giving each other the once-over until they’re satisfied with what they find and have enough information to decide whether to play

CECIL THE LION, R.I.P.—Cruelty for Fun and Profit By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   Animal lovers and environmentalists around the globe were outraged in July, 2015, by news reports of the killing of Cecil the lion, a beloved big cat who was allegedly lured from the safety of his home in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe