November 2020

The Beauty of the End By Susana Greenberg It’s like reaching your destination and reliving the adventure and then putting it in your memory bank to be pulled out any time you want. Laughing and smiling at that memory—or wondering how you made it out alive from that adventure. The beauty of hindsight. To have […]

Dick Sutton (Unjust Justice) By Bob Drynan   In recent years I have made efforts to re-establish contact with the men with whom I served in the Army between 1957 and 1960. In that, with the help of many others, I have been successful. But one lost connection has completely eluded me. For over forty

The Resilience of Our Mexican Friends By Leah Jewall From the Ojo Archives [Ed. Note: With all the natural disasters occurring worldwide, and especially in Canada the USA and Mexico, I thought it to be appropriate to revisit this story.]   Friends from San Ignacio had stopped by for tea. Fifteen minutes later the torrential

LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 November 2020   “The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”  e.e. cummings  Lakeside Living has been weathering the storm of life under COVID-19.  We are learning to know ourselves and how our lives have changed and will continue to evolve in what

A Battle For Survival By Libby Colterjohn     The sail up Sturgeon Lake was wonderful. With the wind behind us, we did a steady five to six knots and reached our destination in just over an hour, without ever starting the motor. It was just one long, glorious flight to freedom with only the

Giving Thanks In The Middle Of The Night A Memoir By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@ol.com Believing my father’s wisdom when he defined “home” as “the place they have to take you in, whether or not they like it” I plopped myself upon the mercies of my paterfamilias and his newly extended family. My mother had died

Truthiness In Advertising By Tom Nussbaum “Conrad Pitzer kicked a puppy! And he wants to represent you in Congress?” a campaign ad claims. A sad-eyed cocker spaniel stares from the television screen, begging the viewer to ask, “How horrible is that man?” But I don’t because I realize this is an “attack ad” and I

Mexican Grace This is a 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 Grace

Catrina Cumpleaños By M.L. Reed Just one more “hurrah” before…, I thought; before what, I didn’t know, only that something would shift to make this little hurrah not possible for my next Halloween birthday. I didn’t know it would be a pandemic, but COVID-19 makes the memory of last year’s celebration all the more precious.

Word Salad By Sally Asante World “History” part 2   The second part of Richard Lederer’s never-before-known facts of World History as explained by eighth grade to college level students: The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at