May 2019

Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez “SOCIALISM”—With a Personal Twist   In the past few weeks, I have heard more than a few American ex-pats voice concern that the United States seems to have now entered into a serious flirtation with Socialism—but the truth is that the United States has had a long history of enacting […]

Cancer Can’t Take My Smile By Brooke Gardner   Cancer is something that happens to other people and not yourself. Everybody knows someone who has or had cancer. It’s something you hear about on TV or read about online. Despite cancer being fairly ubiquitous, it’s not real until it affects you or someone you love.

Unseen Powers By Rico Wallace   Life is unfair. Did you ever hear about the author who could not get his book published and after he committed suicide that book became a Pulitzer Prize winner for Literature? It should be a lesson for us to never give up. Public television in the U.S.A. (PBS) did

Front Row Center By Michael Warren Season 55 – 2019/2020   Next season opens later than usual on November 8, in order to allow for possible overruns on the ambitious renovations planned for this summer. As a result there will be five shows instead of the normal six. The first play will be Lunenburg by

Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson   When we are in Canada during the summer, Herself and I often play at the Aurora Bridge Club in the town of the same name just north of Toronto. The diagrammed hand came our way there in a duplicate game. East passed in first seat and I

Moving To Ecuador By Neil McKinnonneilmcki@yahoo.caFrom the Ojo Archives   A friend of ours is moving to Ecuador. When my wife asked her why, she said she had made a list of the things she wanted to do before she died. That seemed logical so I too decided to make a list of the things

Letter’s to the Editor   Dear Editor, I write in response to your second running of David Moss’ piece, “There Are Always Consequences”, in your March 2019 issue of El Ojo del Lago.  Moss obviously did some research for his article, but he made a number of mistakes.   Moss correctly describes the “Little Ice Age”

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   The five virtues of Sikhism to reach Mutki are: Truth, Compassion, Contentment, Humility and Love. Confucius wrote ‘Goodness without a love of learning leads to simple-mindedness’, and ‘Straight forwardness without propriety is rudeness’. There are seven deadly sins and seven virtues, and I am

Letter’s to the Editor   Dear Mr. Tosca, Your recent article in the April issue of El Ojo del Lago regarding historical firearms and the Second Amendment is much appreciated. You corrected many misunderstandings about the subject, mostly as a consequence of Hollywood script writers playing games with historical realities. For instance, in a film like

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt   I love Mexico. It speaks to me in a way that no other place has. Random sights I see remind me of the variety of life that has assembled here in Mexico at Lakeside. Just from today, I see two horses standing outside their fence grazing on the