Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt Lessons Learned I had an abrupt education on the lifestyle of some of the less fortunate families in our neighborhood in one of our first homes in Mexico. Our bedroom window looked out over the top of the wall, which separated our property from our neighbors, and we […]
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Why Some of our Friends and Neighbors Voted Differently By Michael Hogan I voted for Biden as did many other Americans. But more than 71 million voted for Trump. Is it possible that these millions of American were racists, bigots, misogynists, and ignorant followers of an autocrat? If so, we are in deep trouble.
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The Love Life Of A Princess By Tom Nussbaum Oh, that feels good. I love how he rubs my—aahh, I’m in heaven. So good. Oh, now his hand is moving down to my tummy. Oh, he knows just how to do that. I hope he never sto—Yikes! Stop! Whoa! Don’t even think about going
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Lunenburg By Norm Foster Directed by Georgette Richmond This comedy was originally scheduled for the fall of 2019, but was cancelled three weeks before opening night. Now it has been successfully revived as a reading under the auspices of Ajijic Readers Theatre (ART). It works very well as
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Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Worldwide Fighting Championship The report is not rosy. The virus appears to be getting the best of mankind. We are still in the early rounds of the global fight. We now know that we have been in this battle for longer than initially thought, back to December of
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Mirror To The Universe —Create Great Art By Rob Mohr “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.”“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.” —Ludwig van Beethoven Living at Lakeside, the urge to create art with paint, words, or music is often overpowering. Excited, artists begin their creative endeavors
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“Friluftsliv” Space From Other People And Living In The Moment By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Henry Beston The Outermost House A short time
Nezahualcoyotl By David Ellison Nezahualcoyotl was born about a century before Cortés’ conquest, the heir-apparent to the city-state of Texcoco, on the eastern side of the lake by the same name. However, when he was fifteen, he witnessed his father, the king, murdered by an invading tribe, and spent the next decade in precarious
Living is no Laughing Matter A book review by Herbert W. Piekow The complete title of Dr. Michael Hogan’s 27th book is, Living is no Laughing Matter: A Primer on Existential Optimism. Certainly in the best of times living takes courage, commitment, and a bit of whimsy to live a full life. No one
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Return Of The Orchid Salesman By Janice Kimball The man had once stood in the woman’s Chapala garden offensively shaking handfuls of wild orchid plants before her as if they were rattles. After moving her live-in gallery to West Ajijic twelve years later, she encountered him again. He was dodging between the cars pulling
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