Bad News-Good News By Sydney Gay Kislevitz For the last fifteen years in Ajijic people ask me what happened to your leg? Why do you need crutches? By the time I was forty-five years old I had had two bone transplants, involving twelve surgeons and eight surgeries that failed, and this was happening in …
Word Salad By Sally Asante Crazy English [Directory blurb: More of the burning questions raised by our crazy English language.] In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand? Why do they call them apartments when they’re all together? Why do we call them buildings when they’re …
LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 April 2021 “…who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” — Hunter S. Thompson The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering …
Just One More Temple, Papa By Carol L. Bowman Day One Our English-speaking guide, 28-year-old Hang Hak, first name, last in Cambodian language, bowed reverently in Buddhist tradition to his elders, my husband, Ernie, and me. Along with our tuk-tuk driver, Yang Chan, we set off on our private, two-day exploration of ancient Buddhist …
“To Promote the General Welfare” By Fred Mittag People who have the facts, know the science, and think critically, should come up with the same conclusions. That’s the purpose of peer review. If other scientists can’t replicate an experiment, then it cannot be valid. The scientific method should also apply to social problems and …
Pseudo Sex By Lillian Norma Sookdeosingh A story from my camino blog. So there we were at the end of our seven-week-long trek across the top of Spain on El Camino Frances. Religious and nonreligious pilgrims alike travel this revered path annually. And now ours had ended in Santiago de Compostela. Ended here at …
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com What a difference a Month makes! Last month’s article regarding portable toilets for the congested areas of Tepehua, where the inhabitants have no toilets and have to use open defecation, minimized a massive problem that has since driven the Tepehua Team …
The Anna Matilda Whistler Fan Club, Lakeside Chapter How to Celebrate Your 76th Birthday By Don Beaudreau Having recently celebrated my 76th birthday, at Lakeside, and suffering an identity crisis because of it, I decided I had to do something to save my self-worth. So naturally, I decided to create a fan club for …
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) by Elizabeth Coleman Directed by Liz O’Neill After a long pause due to COVID-19, Ajijic Readers Theatre (ART) has produced this comedy by Australian writer Elizabeth Coleman. There are some farcical elements, mainly the ridiculous situation of the play …
How To Speak Mexican By Michael G. McLaughlin No, this is not an article on the passive tense of the Spanish verb ir or where to go to take Spanish language classes. I have lived here 16 years and have known many people move to Mexico, stay for three years, and head home, usually …
