Articles 2021

Karen Compassion, R.N. By Tom Nussbaum   It began with a pair of pastel blue hospital scrubs. How my roommate acquired them, I do not recall. But there we were, Halloween 1982 looming on the horizon and a costume dilemma semi-solved. “I could go as a doctor,” Mark said. “And I could go as . […]

My Brother’s Angel By Steve Griffin   This is the story my nine-year-old brother told me, and one he sticks to adamantly more than half a century later. He had wandered away from the group of kids playing down by the creek, heading back, he thought, to the cabins provided for the cherry pickers by

Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Tohubohu   All around me I feel swarming tumult. I watch news on television and the internet, and most of it speaks to disorder in our universe.  However, I feel it is my duty as a human being to be informed at this critical juncture of mankind. A raging

And the Post Office Made Three By Margaret Van Every Over the Border   January 15-16. Here we are in stunning Monterrey, 146 miles from the nearest US post office. No mistaking, we’re in a foreign country. We’re happily settled in the Regina Courts with a comfortable bed, shower with hot and cold water, and

Ramblings From The Ranch By Christina Bennett A Place for Everyone Lisa McCary volunter   “Now’s a great time to volunteer at The Ranch. You can get out of the house, be outside, not close to people … and do something to help the dogs,” says Gale Park. A serious back injury prevents Gale from

Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired 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 that brought us to this unique paradise–and that keep

Marcos Castellanos By David Ellison   It might seem shocking that Catholic priests like Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos led a violent revolution. They believed that Jesus called them not only to save souls for a future in Heaven, but to establish justice here on Earth, especially for the long-oppressed Natives. This radical (and

1812: THE FORGOTTEN WAR THAT NOBODY WON By Lorin Swinehart   On January 6, 2021, a pestilential horde of raving, slavering ignoramuses, whipped to a frenzy by the moronic outgoing president and generalissimo wannabe Donald Trump, stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC, threatening life and limb, causing the deaths of five persons, including one

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,

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