August 2020

Surprising Health Benefits of Vanilla Researched by Sydney Gaygooglesydney@yahoo   Worldwide research shows vanilla can reduce cholesterol levels, important for those at high risk of heart attacks and strokes. Lower cholesterol prevents inflammation of the arteries and blood clots. Vanilla is rich in antioxidants, preventing the breakdown of cells, stimulating the body’s natural regrowth. Due […]

LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 August 2020   “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” —Dead Poets Society Whatever our pursuit of the arts may be—acting, painting, writing, music, cooking—the pursuit of beauty in our

Moving Forward While Staying Put By Christy Wiseman   In this time of lockdown for most of the city, one gets desperate for a little fun. I am sheltering in place with my 43-year-old-son, Tom, who, while a blessing and great companion, is in a situation neither of us would voluntarily choose. He does special effects

Aisle Be There For You By Tom Nussbaum   If you think Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock had an adventure riding a bus in Speed, you haven’t experienced a local Lakeside bus ride. Every trip is an adventure. Maybe not as fast or dangerous as in the action film, but an adventure nonetheless. Most émigrés

Housekeeping in the Time of Corona By Cindy Paul   Back and forth I go, in my little rooms. Over there is the green suede ottoman, whose only reason for being is to hold my guitar upright, the one with an incipient hairline fracture that will one day be its doom. The hand-carved, chunky coffee

Mexican Grace This is a new regular feature column inspired by the September 15, 2019 Open Circle presentation of stories that manifest “Mexican Grace.” El Ojo is looking for more anecdotes that relate the many encounters, initiated by expats or locals, that exemplify the special forms of mutual giving and receiving that define the Mexican

Living Between Two Worlds —An Interview with Kristina Trejo By Judy Dykstra-Brown Kristina Trejo   In her 39 years, Kristina Trejo has worked in jobs from a receptionist at a sauna shop, to pretzel maker, but her soul work is as a pianist and batik artist. Her father, Ernesto Trejo, was a renowned Mexican poet

Remember the Ride By Steve Parker   When you are a young boy, approaching 16 years of age, there are only two main concerns in life. One is related to hormones and the other is as strong and could be considered a lust…having a car of your own. As I approached that magic age, after

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com   During the late 1960’s and early 1970, John B. Calhoun made experiments with rats to understand human behavior through overpopulation. He built a rodent city which was called “Mouse Utopia Experiment”. The rodents were given everything they needed as in water, food, nesting boxes