Why We Chose Lakeside By Chuck Bolotin After eight months of traveling through Mexico, I can now tell you, from personal experience, that Mexico is a big, a varied, and in many places, a very beautiful country. A little over two years ago, my wife and I sold our home in Arizona, gave away, […]
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Dear Mr. Putin, We need help. I know you’re a former KGB agent (more power to ya) and that you’re one of the richest guys around (but maybe not richer than Jeff Bezos but you could probably buy and sell Kim Kardashian) but I thought I’d reach out for your support. We’ve tried in
Cejas And The Great Escape By Maggie Van Ostrand The mean streets of Tijuana finally dispatched something other than media reports of killings, kidnappings and cartels. The bloody, dusty, bullet-ridden streets of Tijuana have watched Cejas emigrate, even without proper papers. You may be wondering, Who is this Cejas of whom she writes? Is he
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Shattered Illusions* *Now on Amazon/Kindle and in quality soft-back under the title Against All Odds. A Novel by Alejandro Grattan-DominguezReviewed by Dr. Michael Hogan A compelling novel that captures the spirit of the 1970’s “Please turn out the light and come to bed,” my wife implored as I savored the final pages of
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Each Girl Is A Miracle By Harriet Hart “Each girl is a story, each girl is a miracle,” says Lupita Canepa, the Director of Education for the Centro Educativo Jaltepec, a learning center situated high on a hill overlooking Lake Chapala. “When they arrive,” she continued, “they are shy, timid, awkward girls from
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The Birth Of A Rock By John Ward Since the dawn of time on planet Earth, when rocks were born of cooling magma billions of years ago, or: since about ten thousand years ago, when God thought having stones in his diorama would be good idea, the creation of rocks has always been a
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You Can Warm Your Socks in the Oven—But That Don’t Make’um Biscuits By Fernando Garcia My mom was a genius when it came to finding simple solutions for difficult problems. Raised on a meager farm in Mexico one learned to be resourceful. She used to open the oven door to warm her kitchen on
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Mexican Days By Tony CohanReviewed by Harriet Hart Mexican Days by Tony Cohan is a self-portrait of the artist as an outsider, a spectator on the sidelines of life. He writes poetically about Mexico, his chosen home for over twenty years. Those who have read On Mexican Time know him as the ex-patriot who left
MIXED NUTS: The Gifts of the “Standing People” By Dr. Lorin Swinehart One of my valued possessions is an old, faded and care-worn denim jacket. It has a history, has served me well as I rode horses, baled hay, roamed the woods with my canine friends, cast flies upon the surfaces of ponds and
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez RONALD REAGAN— Actor!? There are those who disagree with just about everything that was ever said by Ronald Reagan, the politician—and it has been fashionable for them to likewise rudely dismiss the President Reagan’s long career in the entertainment industry. But with what follows, we’ll try to make a
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