A Day In Hollywood By Tom Nussbaum Although not remembered my many, Broadway musical A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine won several Tony Awards in 1980. A few years later, a touring production came to Seattle. The 5th Avenue Theater and a local radio station, to promote the run, held a Win […]
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Meet Your Local Artists at the ASA Studio Art Walk A Brief History of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) In the early 1980s, a group of artists (many of whom were graduates of Neill James’ children’s art program that was started in the 1950s), along with patrons, would meet at the Bernard
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Inventory And did you survive the nocturnal darkthe bleak encounters with old mistakes and lossesand shattered dreams in the drawn-out night?Or did you step out before the night ended and watch the twinklingblue paleness of Venus rise in the west? Did you forsake another hour in bed and head off with your dogto keep
Mexican Grace Mexican Grace is a new regular feature column inspired by the September 15th 2019 Open Circle. El Ojo is looking for anecdotes that relate the many encounters, whether initiated by expats or locals, that exemplify the special manifestations of mutual giving and receiving that define the Mexican Grace that brought us to this
Heat an abscess of heat settles without a breezethe body sheds all of its excesses,bodies not conditioned to thermal airshut down,sweating bodiesrelieving the tediumof hot lazy down and dirty on clean sheetslubricating just below the surfacemelting away the doldrums of dry season decidedly uncanadian, but if you’re hot,working up a sweat,heat becomes a friend
Bidding Farewell To My Singer By Margaret Van Every Mahadevi Prem at work on her 78-year-old Singer I’ve arrived at the inevitable point in life where I’m wanting to give cherished possessions away. Better to do it now than have others haul everything off to a consignment shop after I’m gone. This way I
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Addicted To Chance By Sue Schools This morning a fantastic sunrise glimmered over Lake Chapala while the moon shimmered in the other part of the sky … my personal paradise and I am blessed to be here. Then, why am I blue? I live in gated community up above the main Guadalajara highway, on
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Getting On With Getting On By Christy Wiseman *I’m so sorry to hear of your lovely wife Lindy’s death. It is a sentiment I’m sending more frequently as I age. The name might be different and your condolences may have been over a spouse, significant other, child, or someone near and dear who was a
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Red Duct Magic By Katina Pontikes The drive from Lake Charles, Louisiana to DeRidder, Louisiana is only forty-five minutes long. When I was a child, it seemed to take hours. Farm fences displayed brightly colored ads for Brylcreem hair pomade and Barbasol shaving cream. The colorful signs provided a break in the monotony for
The National Bird? Ben Franklin, it might be recalled,Entreated all his fellow men:“Forget about the eagle bald,Wild turkey is American. “Bald eagles are bad characters,But turkeys are respectable.They won’t be viewed as predators,And turkeys are delectable. “Wild turkeys winging overheadAre such a sight to seeCompared to one lone eagle, Jeb,Perched high in yonder tree.”
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