Front Row Center By Michael Warren Twentieth Century BluesBy Susan MillerDirected by Kevin Cook Susan Miller is a prolific playwright best known for her moving one-woman show My Left Breast. This play is about the trials and some of the pleasures of aging, a subject to which many of us can relate. The play …
Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Changes Sitting at the Libramiento intersection to Walmart waiting for the light to change, I took a deep sigh. I closed my eyes and remembered what it was like there when I first came to Mexico. I remember driving over the crest of the hill on the Libramiento …
Novels Mexicanas By Juan Gregorio H. Early in the 19th century, a gentlewoman from New England visited Mexico City. In her diary she wrote: “The rich, aristocratic ladies do nothing useful or enlightening. All day long they laze about in dishabille. They never open a book. In fact, most of them cannot read.” Judging …
Lakeside Adventure Queen By Queen Michel Today, started out as any normal Wednesday, I headed to Wednesday market early, so as not to be late for my Meta Mind discussion group at 11:15 am. Everything was going well. I had gotten everything intended at the market and the bus had just pulled up back …
Sustainability By Patricia Hemingway Rosa, my Mexican neighbor, sells plants on the sidewalk outside her home. Right away I notice the schefflera, the umbrella plant, in a small, cracked plastic pot. With pride Rosa tells me she found it as a tiny seedling—she illustrates with her fingers barely an inch apart—and that she has …
Forever Young Ajijic, high above the lake,a day’s no more than what you make.A hotel on a cobble street,a lady there, I chanced to meet.Her villa perched upon a hill.An autumn day can fan a chill.An afternoon, a brief repast,a time to rest, respite at last.A cup of tea, a room to hire,discourse beside …
The Hero Of Molino Del Rey By Herbert W. Piekow By September 8, 1847 the invading American Army had fought their way from Veracruz to the outskirts of Mexico City. Two miles from the gates of the Mexican capitol rose Chapultepec Castle and separating the castle from the countryside a dense forest at whose …
LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.com Phone: 33-2506-7525 February 2020 Lake Chapala Writers Conference Announcement from the Organizing Committee: “It is with a very heavy heart that I announce the cancellation of the 2020 Lake Chapala Writers Conference…your organizing committee needs healing time, both physical and emotional for either themselves or family…We will be …
Guns, Grit and Glory By Michael HoganBook Review by Mark Sconce If you are a history buff or an antique gun enthusiast, or simply a lover of good stories, you have cause to be happy today because Michael Hogan has written a new book: Guns, Grit, and Glory: How the US and Mexico Came …
Collateral Damage By Robert Bruce Drynan Sixty years ago I stood in the ranks and saluted as the Stars and Stripes rose to greet the day, and again as the sun departed and the melancholy notes of taps echoed into the night. I have walked through military cemeteries and read aloud names on the …
