Remembering Mister Lebowitz By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez There are moments in everyone’s life that can dramatically change whatever is left of them. One such “moment” happened to me when I was no more than twelve years old. My family was living in El Paso, Texas. My father had recently died, leaving my Mexican mother, younger brother,
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 March 2021 “There is a reason the sky gets dark at night. We were not meant to see everything all the time. We were meant to rest and trust even in the darkness. —Morgan Harper Nichols Here we are; almost a year since COVID-19 began its onslaught
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The Universe of Missing Mass John Sacelli when i was a child i went to mass. didn’t like it much. our father which art in heaven . . is there really witch art in heaven? do they cast spells, burn sinners in latin? was afraid, didn’t like it much when i was a young
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Letters to the Editor Re: “Why Some of our Friends and Neighbors Voted Differently” by Michael Hogan (January 2021) Dear Editor: In this very divisive time in the US, where Democrats not only disagree with Republicans and Republicans disagree with Democrats, but when they actively hate each other, it is a breath of fresh
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The Price of Beautiful Lawns: Our Dog Sammy By Suzy Scully It took 35 hours for his death. After ingesting lawn poison on a walk Thursday evening in lower La Floresta, Ajijic, he died Saturday at 7:39 in the morning. Why did our dear 12-year-old dog, a hairless Chinese Crested, officially named “Little Black Sambo,”
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Wounded By Bernie Suttle Moises was where he always wanted to be, in the first row of his church, San Jose, in his village, Nipomo, California. He sat in front of the image of La Señora de Guadalupe, La Morena, his mother. He was wearing the cracked leather jacket he had grabbed from the Goodwill
Happy 10th Anniversary International Institute of Chapala Lily A. Ehlebracht, Ed.M, M.Ed. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the International Institute in Chapala, Jalisco. In our first years open, my team spent hours negotiating the 2020 mission and vision, debating where we wanted to go and the best ways to get there. There
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Recalling Some College Capers By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez There comes a time in our lives when we have a great deal more to remember than to anticipate, and in just such a mood I find myself dwelling on my college years, not that they were anything so special but still several notches above my high school
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com Ironing Out The Wrinkles In Tepehua’s 2021 Project The purpose of the project is to bring sanitation and health to Tepehua. Every barrio has the problem of disposing of human and animal waste. Those who live on the paved main streets with lights
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Searching for Gurney By Jack Estes Review by Robert Drynan (A Marine Veteran of Vietnam) This book is a unique effort that successfully ignores the usual dramatic arc. It is a kaleidoscopic series of vignettes of the experiences of three marines serving in Vietnam in 1968/9 and a North Vietnamese soldier. It details their
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