March 2023

Yes, I am sure you can remember the classic disco hit “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy that gave a dance floor beat to Beethoven’s magnum opus and was used to great effect in Saturday Night Fever. One could argue, therefore, that the great Ludwig Van made a not insignificant contribution to the disco […]

Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com March 2023 ~  March 10th – 11th, Friday & Saturday 10:00am ~ 3:00pm The annual two-day LCS Art Fair will be held each day in the gardens of the Lake Chapala Society, 16 de Septiembre #16A in Ajijic. This is the largest and last LCS art event of this high season –

Satva is a Sanskrit word generally meaning truth or goodness. Now, the café at in Ajijic is called Savta, which I take to be a humorous misspelling. But down here South of the Border, who knows? My friend Clarice and I recently convened at the café for tea and conversation. Clarice is from England, and

Patrick O’Rourke’s smile was as white as an Irish Easter lily, his eyes radiant blue like the Irish Sea glistening in the sun. He was, as his name implied, Irish through-and-through. His pale skin was as pure as a freshly laundered Irish linen bedsheet. But the Catholic twenty-six-year-old’s black hair wasn’t particularly Gaelic and, typical

The rebozo has been known since the Conquest, it is believed to be a product of miscegenation. Throughout its history this feminine garment has been made by Mexican artisans. It is one of the most recognized traditions. “Nowadays it is being lost,” says Lupita Zepeda, an expert on the subject, and adds: “because people have

It’s Hard to Top a Good Cliché “Let’s have some new clichés.”—movie mogul (and humorist) Samuel Goldwyn “One of the ironies of language is that striking figures of speech and vivid comparisons soon become clichés precisely because they initially express an idea so well,” says linguist Richard Lederer. Is there any doubt a person was

Part 2 This is part 2 – suggesting the type of questions to ask when you are touring a potential care facility and meet with the person in charge of the facility, or their representative. Part One in the February column dealt with things to observe when looking at prospective care facilities. Below I have

The game of chess no longer carries the prestige it did when our uncle taught my older brother and me to play when we were still in grade school. I still don’t know where my uncle learned to play. Nobody else in the family knew how. And I can’t imagine that he learned it at

In 2022, The Ranch placed 275 dogs in new homes. While that number is exciting, our 2021 total was over 500. What’s going on, you may ask? It seems that demand for Mexican dogs has declined in the United States and Canada. Many people were excited to adopt dogs during the height of the pandemic

Password Insecurity Technology tricked us. The evolution of the internet and all the ease it offered to our lives came with a wickedly insidious condition. The internet became a crime-filled zone which required ever increasing vigilance. I remember a time when I had two codes I had to remember. One code, four digits long, was