Articles 2022

A man walked into a bar in Panama in 1921 and approached another, who sat hunched over a beer. “Say, are you the pilot they call Jimmie?” The somewhat scruffy, downcast drinker in his early twenties, looked up, “Yeah, what of it?” “You open to a proposition?” “Sure, but I can’t fly you anywhere, I […]

Amidst a world of turmoil, political insanity, wars that no-one ever wins, pandemics and inclement weather, we feel the stirrings of spring.  With our friends around the world, peace has never been more treasured.  We share an optimism that doesn’t diminish. The Tepehua Team have their eye on the future, because what we have accomplished

The widow Eloise reached for the glass of water from her bedside table and sipped it slowly, the water moistening her papery tongue. The pink plastic pill case, divided by days of the week, was right next to where the water had been. She picked it up and looked down at the filled squares, pills

Making Fun I have only been arrested once… for joking at an airport. In its infancy in 1973, the airline security in Wisconsin consisted of one blue-haired lady sitting behind a folding table. “What’s in your backpack?”  “Two books and a scarf,” I said. “Be careful, the scarf might explode.” Official charge: bomb threat, felony,

I was reading the December issue of El Ojo del Lago, and saw a notice that free mammograms were being given in Chapala on a certain date.  Since I had not had mine last spring while in the U.S. I decided to go and get one. On the appointed day I drove to Chapala and

Have you ever had a vision? An idea? The feeling deep down in your soul the universe has sent you a message? Canadian actor/artist Gail Simpson describes what happened to her as a “God download.” As she steered her car down the Vancouver freeway one fall day in 2021, the vision came to her. A vision to help the

You might associate the term narcissism with people who are self-absorbed. In fact, NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is a relatively new term. The narcissistic personality was first described by the psychoanalyst Robert Waelder, in 1925. The term narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) was coined by Heinz Kohutin, in 1968. NPD is characterized by “a life-long pattern

Breath our lithe form enchants as you move wistfully about me – like slender diurnals your hands cast a mystic spell as your eyes close and reveal silken lashes – your essence shatters barriers that bind my hidden soul – as your breath heals   my wounds. Rob Mohr April 2022 Issue El Ojo del Lago

Deliverance By Margaret Van Every Foot and fist embossed on the belly, time came when the womb had had its fill of you, your punch and kick. The membrane that once swaddled you so sweetly, now a shrink-wrapped garment was, binding foot against face. Coiled homunculus ached to unfold like buds, leaves, and wings. But

Refugees By Margaret Van Every   All it took were two: the primordial man and woman were the first to be expelled. The soil, the orchard, the pile of leaves on which they dreamed, the beasts that  they had named—the sum of the familiar  they thought was theirs.   A sword at the back corrected