You Must Close The Door And Move On By Roger Johnson He called her often, oh far and wide, Said he wanted her right by his side, Another woman was with him and kept The bed warm on the side where he slept. You must close the door and move on. She wanted to […]
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Editor’s Note In all my 23 years as the editor of this magazine, I have never seen it happen before. Over those same years, we often published articles and stories that have found sizable favor with our readers, as recorded by Letters to the Editor and the number of hits on our website, Chapala.com.
Writing And My Relationship With It By John Ward Writing was always difficult for me. In the first, second and third grades, there were no ball-points, biros or fountain pens where I grew up, in Africa. I was enrolled at a local convent where stick wielding nuns taught the alphabet and made us write
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The Sumit By Hildegard Hintz Late for the meeting, Matador ran down Calle De Las Olas. Damn, he thought, I was so sure I’d be on time this week. The chairman singled him out often and not because he thought that Matador deserved a commendation. When he turned the corner, he crashed into somebody. “Get
Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: Firstly, I apologize, I don’t have access to a computer, but felt compelled to write to you about Mr. Bill Frayer’s article—“Uncommon Sense—When expert opinion is questionable,” As a Canadian, and a physician who lived in the Ajijic area and worked in family practice and emergency medicine for a
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Magnificent Mexico By Mildred Boyd Ancient Gold Compared to the riches of Peru, gold was relatively rare in meso-America and, though quills filled with gold dust were sometimes used as a medium of exchange and the glittering metal was called the “excrement of the gods”, it was far less valued than jade or even plumes
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Agnes of GodBy John PielmeierDirected by Paul Kloegman Evidently, John Pielmeier was inspired to write this play after seeing an article in a newspaper about an event that occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city limits of Rochester. However, the play is entirely
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Every January there is a spate of robberies around Lakeside, and every January there is an attempt to break into Tepehua Centro Comunitario A.C. Although the old front door took quite a beating it remained firm, like an old friend. They broke windows and
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The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) MEMORIES BEGONE! Juan Carlos Martinez The History of people should not be part of oblivion. The new generations are more insensitive, perhaps because the era of the cybernetic keeps most of the memories. But the smells, tastes, sounds and other perceptions
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Snow Mail By Chuck Pattinian After 17 glorious winters at Lakeside in Ajijic we spent the last winter in the snow infested lake-effect region of upstate New York. Why? It’s complicated, the reasons not for this writing. The lake we enjoy during the summer closes down in the winter, although some folks do live
