Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz By David Ellison Juana Inés was an illegitimate child and, what was far worse, a woman. Even so, she emerged as the greatest American intellect of the 17th Century. Juana Inés could read and write by the age of 3. At 16, she begged to masquerade as […]
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El Gringo By Juan Mata By Robert Bruce Drynan They sent us another gringo. The gringo jefes in Caracas don’t trust the new jefe Guaicaipuro. Maybe they send this gringo to watch him. Not so stupid after all. The other gringo jefes they sent before Guaicaipuro were hard to understand. Now they send Guaicaipuro
LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 July 2021 “ We have to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.“ D.H. Lawrence The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range of presentations. For more information and to make reservations,
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MEXICO: Assisted Living in Your Own Home By Donna Mansfield My husband died last January. He had MADSAM (Multifocal Acquired Demylinating Sensory and Motor Neuropathy) and had been in declining health for 12 years. With the onset of COVID restrictions, and his further deterioration to the point of being unable to walk even with
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Unsung Heroes The Butcher Shop By Herbert W. Piekow My Guadalajara neighborhood is typical, twenty blocks either way are sixty-year-old two-story houses one built against the other, each neighbor sharing a common wall. Some have businesses on the ground floor with a residence above. Once my house had a street level warehouse while the
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A Tale of Three Elephants and an Elephant’s Tail Dr. Lorin Swinehart This is a story of three groups of elephants, one in Thailand, one in Botswana and a third in the US. The elephant in Thailand, along with his fellows, has been rescued from a life of hard work and cruelty by
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Contempt By Robert Bruce Drynan Closed Senate Hearing- Armed Services Committee “For the record, will you please state your name and present occupation?” “Lt. Coronel JoAnne Rae Hazlet, United States Army. I have recently returned from Iraq and I have received orders to report to the Military Police Training Command at Fort Leonard Wood,
Elizabeth Sellars, Elizabeth Sellars, The Ginger on the Hill By Leslie Johansen Nack There are gems hidden in every city—people with amazing educations and experiences who are filled with wisdom they might be reluctant to share or even acknowledge. One of those people in the lakeside community is my landlady Elizabeth Sellars—an unassuming, sometimes nervous, thin,
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Dressed in All Our Decades By Susa Silvamarie We’re dressed in all our decades, in rich brocades of life well-worn, and regularly mended. Vivid restoration patches— the hip, the shoulder, the knee– make us into living art! Our tatty brains save us from the trivial forgotten things, spare us for what matters. Delightfully scuffed
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Dinner With Friends By Donald Margulies Directed by Brian Fuqua This play premiered off-Broadway in 1999, and it has received many awards and nominations, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000. But to me it somehow lacked tension and I found it difficult to empathize with any
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